How Old Is Space

This was followed by nasa s skylab space station the first orbital laboratory in which astronauts and scientists studied earth and the effects of spaceflight on the human body.

How old is space. Space stations marked the next phase of space exploration. Apollo 13 was the seventh manned mission in the apollo space program 1961 1975 and was supposed to be the third lunar landing mission but the three astronauts aboard never reached. In 2013 planck measured the age of the universe at 13 82 billion years. Without the old space knowledge gained over 50 years new space could not exist.

In april 1981 the launch of the space shuttle columbia ushered in a period of reliance on the reusable shuttle for most civilian and military space missions. The first space station in earth orbit was the soviet salyut 1 station which was launched in 1971. Twenty four successful shuttle launches fulfilled many scientific and military requirements until jan. 28 1986 when just 73 seconds after liftoff the space shuttle challenger exploded.