Timeline: Astronomy history timeline

Jan 1, 1609

The First telescope

In 1609 Galileo built the first telescope. He built a refractor telescope. This telescope used glass lens.

Mar 16, 1926

The First Fuel Rocket

Robert H. Goddard was the first person to build and launch the first fueled rocket on March 16th 1926. His rocket successfully got an altitude of 41 feet, lasted 2 seconds and averaged about 60 miles per hour.

Jun 20, 1944

First Research Flight

The V2 rocket was launched in Nazi Germany. It was the first type of rocket to make it into space. The V2 technical name is aggregat.

Oct 4, 1957

The First Artifical Satelite

The Soviet Union launched and built the first Artificial Satelite called the Sputnik the Satelite was about the size of a beach ball. It orbited earths oliptical path.

Nov 3, 1957

First Animal launched Into Space

A dog named Laika was sent up into space. She became the first animal ever to orbit earth many people say she did it the human way. The mission was called Sputnik number 2.

Jan 2, 1959

First Rocket Into Earths orbit

On January 2nd 1959 was the very first time a rocket has gone into earths orbit. This rocket was built by USSR. USSR stands for Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Jun 16, 1963

First Women In Space

Valentina Tereshkova was the first women in space. She launched in the Vostok 6 mission. She was in space for about three days and orbited earth about 48 times.

Jul 16, 1969

First Man On The Moon

Neil Armstrong was the very first man on the moon. Buzz Aldrin was also involved in Apollo 11. This was a huge jumping point for nasa for having the first man land on the moon.

Jan 23, 1970

First Polar Orbit

The new and improved polar satellites were launched on January 23 1970. It was called the tiros Satelite built and launched by NASA.

Dec 7, 1972

First Picture Of Earth

The first picture of earth was taken by nasa Johnson space center. The mission was Apollo 17th when the crew left the earths orbit to the moons orbit.

Jul 20, 1976

First Landing On Mars

The Viking landers where the first thing to land on Mars. The Vikings are very cool high tech robot machines that where able to land on Mars successfully. Viking lander number 1 was the first Viking that landed on the moon in 1976.

Sep 5, 1977

First Picture Of The Solar System

NASA decided to take a photo of all of the planets in our solar system in 1977. They launched the voyager 1. Voyager 1 was the machine that took all of the nice and very clear pictures.

Jun 13, 1983

First Space Craft Beyond Neptune

Pioneer 10 was the first NASA mission to the outer planets it crossed neptunes orbit. It was making a first for space travel. NASA launched multiple spacecrafts out to neptunes orbit.

Feb 2, 2001

First Landing On An Asteroid

On February 2nd 2001 NASA launched a spacecraft that landed on an asteroid called Eros. This was a huge jumping point for NASA for landing on the first asteroid.