Rocket History
Caroline Perry
Oct. 11,2000
From Launch Pad 39A on STS-92, the 100th launch and was also the 100th space walk for the U.S space program.
2001
Oct. 15, 2004
2005
America's Cassini becomes the first spacecraft to orbit Saturn; releases European Huygens probe prior to orbit insertion.
2006
2007
Venus Express, ESA's (European Space Agency) first mission to Venus, arrives successfully.
2008
American Peggy Whitson becomes the first female ISS commander (Expedition 16).
2009
2010
2012
NASA's messenger becomes the first spacecraft to enter orbit around the planet Mercury.