Astronomy

By PD20211
  • galileo

    galileo

    galileo uses a telescope for astronomical observations.

  • Kepleer

    Kepler discovers laws of planetary motion

  • Christian Huyens

    Christian discovers that the "appendages" of saturn are rings"
  • Edmund Halley

    Edmund Halley

    he discovers that stars move throughout space.

  • William Herschel

    He discovers Uranus

  • William Herschel

    uses star counts to map milky way

  • lord kelvin

    He estimates age of the sun

  • Harlow Shapley

    Finds the size and shape of the milky way
  • Space Race begins

    Space Race begins

    Began with Sputnik being launched into orbit

  • usa launches explorer 1

  • nasa is formed

    nasa is formed

  • First firing of a rocket in Earth orbit

  • Yuri Gagaran is the first man to go into outer space

  • First man on the moon

    Neil Armstrong is the first man on the moon

  • first rendenvous on a celestial object

  • first luner rover

    first luner rover

  • first jupiter flyby

    first jupiter flyby

  • Space Race Ends

    Space Race Ends

  • first shuttle launched

    first shuttle launched

  • first venus soil samples

  • first american women in space

    first american women in space

  • Hubble telescope is launched

    Hubble telescope is launched

  • magellen begins to map venus

  • first landing on an asteroid

  • 100th us spacewalk

  • first tourist in space

    a twenty million dollar got him to go into space with the help of the russians, the us declined his offer

  • space shuttle columbia disaster