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Human spaceflight firsts

Order these spaceflight milestones by the year each first happened. Place all 27 cards on one timeline, one at a time — three wrong guesses and the run is over.

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How Human spaceflight firsts is played

Every card in this deck carries a hidden value on the same scale — release years and dates — and the run is one long sorting problem. The first card is dealt face up. Each card after it goes into the gap where you think it belongs, and the value only shows once it lands. Get it wrong three times and the run ends with whatever you had placed.

This deck can also be shuffled together with any other deck measured in release years and dates — tick several on the deck tree to build one longer timeline out of them.

What's in the deck

27 of the 27 cards you could be dealt. The 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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