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The first telescope was created by a Dutch names Hans Lipperhay by combining two lenses. Galileo created the first astronomical telescope to study space.
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The first moon was spotted by Galileo Galilie
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Issac Newton built the first successful reflecting telescope.
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Issac Newton publicized his theory of universal gravitation. This was just the beginning of modern astronomy.
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Albert Einstien came up with the theory of relativity which explains physices, space, and time.
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The first rocket was launched into space using liquid fuel, by Robert H. Goddard in Auburn Massachusetts. This was the start of launching rockets.
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The first radio telescope was built by Grote Reber, which would now read radio emissions from space
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The first V2 rocket was launcehd into space by a german rocket scientist named Wernher Von Brauns. The rocket went 118 miles until it fell.
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Sputnik 1 was the first artificial satellite into space by the Soviet Union this was a starting of the space race.
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The Soviet Uniono launched Sputnik 2. It was the second artificial satelite launcehd into space. This was also the first time a live animal had also been launched into space.
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America's first satelite was launched into orbit by the Army called Explorer 1 which weighed only 30 pounds
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NASA is founded taking over the responsiblities of NACA
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Russian satelite Luna 1 amis to hit the moon but misses and instead goes into orbit around the sun.
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The first photograph of earth was taken by a camera attached to a V2 rocket that was launched into earth's orbit by the US
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The first space craft on the moon was a Russian satelite called Luna 2. Russia launched aiming for it to hit the moon, and it was successful and became the first man made object to hit the moon.
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Russian satelite, Luna 3 is launched orbiting the moon. It photographed 70% of the moons far side.
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Russian cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich became the first man in space. His flight lasted 1 hr and 48 min
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President Kennedy made a speech to the congress. He challenged the nation to land a man on the moon and return safely to earth before the end of the decade
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John H Glenn was launched into orbit where he became the the first american to go into orbit around the earth. He made a total of 3 orbits around the earth where is flight lasted 4 hours and 56 min before he fell back to earth.
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Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov takes man's first space walk, on manned Maneuvering Unit off the Challenger space shuttle.
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Neil Armstrong, and then Buzz Aldrin took "one small step" and became the first men on the moon. The first words said on the moon were "the Eagle has landed". Their spaceship, Apollo 11 had flew them 250,000 miles from earth to the moon.
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The first flight of Discovery a space shuttle. It was launched into space by NASA. It also became the first shuttle to dock with the international space station, a multinational, orbiting research laboratory.
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The challenger, a space shuttle explodes after 73 seconds killing a crew of seven onboard.
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Ronald Reagen annouced that NASA would no longer launch commercial satelites.
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Hubble, a telescope, had been launched after over a decade of research and development.
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The first extra solar planet, a planet orbiting a different star, is found. Since then, 358 extra solar planets have been found. Although no earth like planets have been found, there are good prospects for the future.
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NASA developed X-38 a space shuttle which is planned to use in the future for space exploration. It has had a successful un piloted flight test
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The Hubble telescope gave us a direct image of a planet outside the galaxy.
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The international space station is launched into orbit around Earth by Russia and NASA, who share the space station. It is a science lab used in space.
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American millionaire Dennis Tito became the first space tourist when he paid around 20 million dollars for a ride in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. He mostly visited the ISS.
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The mars rover lands on mars. Since 2004 it has given stunning scientific findings. It gave us the knowledge of water on mars. This gives us the idea that there was once living things here.
