The History of Space Travel Timeline

To travel into the unknown of space is a dream for so many children and adults alike, although one that very few will ever reach. Throughout time so many countries, and now private companies, across the world have tried to create a method of getting in amongst the stars and it’s even united countries that previously had such strong conflict. Here we’re going to go through a timeline of the significant moments in the history of space travel, starting way back in the 1940s.

SpaceSpace travel has for so many people mesmerized them from a very young age, myself included, and as this list has shown, there is always something new to discover, we have barely scratched the surface and yet every year we learn or launch something new with the dream of reaching some unknown bit of the universe. To travel to the furthest edge man can reach will always be the aim, to unearth the secrets hidden, to find life or anything that’s interesting and bewildering drives some of the best minds in the world every day.