2015 Event Concerns over security in the Asia-Pacific region are raised after a U.S. surveillance flight identifies artillery on one of the man-made islands under development by China in the South China Sea 2013 Event NASA's Voyager 1 space probe makes history by advancing past the solar system - becoming the first man-made object to reach interstellar space 1986 Death William J Schroeder, (longest-survivor with permanent artificial) heart, dies at 54, after 620 days with Jarvik VII man-made pump) 1983 Event Pioneer 10 is 1st man-made object to leave Solar System 1971 Event Man-made earthslide at Kawasaki Japan, kills 15 1967 Event Surveyor 6 becomes 1st man-made object to lift off Moon 1966 Event Venera 3 becomes 1st man-made object to impact on a planet (Venus) 1959 Event River Canyon extending man-made Lake Hebgen by 5 miles. (Montana) 1958 Event After warming to 100,000,000 degrees, 2 light atoms are bashed together to create a heavier atom, resulting in 1st man-made nuclear fusion 1955 Event 1st pilot plant to produce man-made diamonds announced 1945 Event JPL WAC Corporal Launch (1st Man-Made Object to escape Atmosphere)