There are different ways to look at space history. In narrative form, telling the tale from its beginning, its origins, its evolution. Through the eyes of participants, who tell their own stories as they lived them. Through tables of launches and tests. Through technical specifications and their evolution and adaptation.
On these pages, I try to present the some aspects of space history through a chronology, a visual timeline. It puts the events and facts in a different format and, while limiting in certain areas, it gives a different perspective on what happened when and time relationships between different events.
It is of course a work in progress. Currently I have working on a timeline for the Atlas missile and space launcher and on human Spaceflight. I will continue to add to those timelines as time allows and maybe create others in the future.
I used Aeon Timeline to create these chronologies which offers quite some handy features, also in its web version. You can click each event (on the green arrow when you hover over the event name) to see more details like a description of the event, location information, sources and links. You can search on anything that appears in the event title.
Of course I welcome all corrections, additions, references or other information. You can reach my by e-mail at michel.gaelens (at) wayo.be.
I hope you get some value out of my work.
Currently available Timelines :