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Human spaceflight firsts

Order these spaceflight milestones by the year each first happened. You place all 27 cards on one timeline, one at a time. Three wrong guesses ends the run.

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How to play the human spaceflight firsts timeline

Spaceflight firsts are the cards, each with the mission, spacecraft or person behind it printed under the title. You're ordering them by the year each milestone first happened. One milestone starts on the timeline with its year showing. Slot every new card into the gap where it belongs. Land it right and you see the year; a wrong one still moves the card to its true spot, but you lose one of three lives.

The early space race is crammed with firsts, many arriving within a short stretch of each other. Then the pace slows through the station and shuttle years before the commercial era picks it up again. The note under each card names the spacecraft or crew, which helps if you know your missions. Some firsts happened in a different order than you'd guess.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

How players are doing

This deck has been played 11 times. An average run places 8 cards, and 73% of all placements land in the right spot. Only one run has ever placed every card.

The cards players get wrong most often:

  • First untethered spacewalk missed 100% of the time, usually by a single place
  • First module of Mir missed 80% of the time, usually by about 2 places
  • First all-civilian orbital crew missed 57% of the time, usually by a single place

What's in the deck

Here are 27 of the 27 cards you might be dealt. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • First animal in orbit Laika aboard Sputnik 2
  • First human in space Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1
  • First American in space Alan Shepard on Freedom 7
  • First American in orbit John Glenn on Friendship 7
  • First woman in space Valentina Tereshkova on Vostok 6
  • First multi-person crew Voskhod 1 carried three cosmonauts
  • First spacewalk Alexei Leonov left Voskhod 2
  • First crewed Apollo flight Apollo 7 in Earth orbit
  • First humans to orbit the Moon Apollo 8 crew
  • First Moon landing Apollo 11's Armstrong and Aldrin
  • First space station Salyut 1 launched by the Soviets
  • First American space station Skylab hosted three crews
  • First international docking Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
  • Last Apollo Moon landing Apollo 17's Cernan and Schmitt
  • First reusable spacecraft launch Space Shuttle Columbia STS-1
  • First untethered spacewalk Bruce McCandless with the MMU
  • First module of Mir The Soviet modular station
  • First Space Shuttle after Challenger Return to flight on Discovery
  • First crew aboard the ISS Expedition 1 arrived
  • First self-funded space tourist Dennis Tito visited the ISS
  • First Chinese human spaceflight Yang Liwei on Shenzhou 5
  • First private crewed suborbital flight SpaceShipOne won the X Prize
  • First commercial crew to the ISS SpaceX Crew Dragon Demo-2
  • First all-civilian orbital crew Inspiration4 mission
  • First Artemis test flight Uncrewed Orion around the Moon
  • First crewed Starliner flight Boeing's crewed test flight
  • First commercial spacewalk Polaris Dawn mission

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