1973
Skylab I was launched on 14 May 1973.
As the number of space expeditions increased, there was felt a need to establish space stations in space where a team/mission sent to outer space could live for some time. They can remain functional for up to year's time. Skylab was the name given to the space station launched by the united states.
1998
Mir (Мир) was the first Russian space station. The word means Peace, World or Society. It was was operational from 1986 to 2001.
The first space station, Salyut 1, was launched by the Soviet Union in 1971. This marked the beginning of human habitation in space stations.
In 2001 Dennis Tito became the first "Space Tourist".
the year that the ranger space probe was launched was in 1964.
Skylab was launched on the14th May 1973 and re-entered Earth's atmosphere on the 11th July 1979.
The first two modules of the International Space Station (ISS), Zarya and Unity, were launched in 1998. Zarya, the Functional Cargo Block, was launched on November 20, and Unity, the Node 1 module, followed shortly after on December 4. These modules marked the beginning of the ISS assembly in orbit.
Skylab was launched on the14th May 1973 and re-entered Earth's atmosphere on the 11th July 1979.
On the 20th of November 1998, the Russian built module Zarya, became the first module of the International Space Station to be launched into space. A couple of days later, on the 4th of December, the fist American built module, Unity, was launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard the space shuttle Endeavour. The construction of the ISS should be completed by the end of 2010.
1981