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Important dates in space exploration

By dom nahra
  • Benjamin Franklin attempts to regulate waste disposal and water pollution.

    Benjamin Franklin attempts to regulate waste disposal and water pollution.

    Was for the people. the water had a foul order and was toxic.
  • Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden

    Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden

    to live deliberately, to confront the essentials, and to extract the meaning of life as it is, good or bad
  • The term ecology is coined in German as Oekologie by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel

    The term ecology is coined in German as Oekologie by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel

    to describe the 'economies' of living forms.
  • acid rain

    acid rain

    The phrase acid rain was first used in 1852 by Scottish chemist Robert Angus Smith during his investigation of rainwater chemistry near industrial cities in England and Scotland.
  • The term smog is coined by Henry Antoine Des Voeux in a London meeting to express concern over air pollution

    The term smog is coined by Henry Antoine Des Voeux in a London meeting to express concern over air pollution

    Smokey fog
  • US Congress created the National Park Service

    US Congress created the National Park Service

    The Organic Act, enacted in 1916, secured this new conservation direction by creating a National Park Service (NPS) and National Park System with a resource protection goal.
  • spudnick

    spudnick

    Moscow launches the first satellite, Sputnik 1, on Oct. 4, 1957, ushering in the Cold War tussle for the cosmos.
  • Rachel Carson publishes Silent Spring

    Rachel Carson publishes Silent Spring

    Carson's research on the effect of insecticides (specifically DDT) on bird populations coupled with her moving prose made Silent Spring a best-seller, though chemical companies attacked it as unscientific.
  • The Apollo 8 picture of Earthrise

    The Apollo 8 picture of Earthrise

    On Christmas Eve, 1968 the crew of Apollo 8 captured a spectacular sight as they orbited the Moon: the illuminated Earth appearing above the barren lunar horizon
  • Apollo 11 mission

    Apollo 11 mission

  • First Earth Day

    First Earth Day

    April 22. Millions of people gather in the United States for the first Earth Day. US Environmental Protection Agency established
  • moon

    moon

    all American, walked the Moon as part of NASA's Apollo program.
  • US spacecraft Viking 1 becomes the first to successfully land on Mars

    US spacecraft Viking 1 becomes the first to successfully land on Mars

  • Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete the ozone layer entered into force

    The parties to the Protocol meet once a year to make decisions aimed at ensuring the successful implementation of the agreement.
  • launch of the hubble space telescope

    launch of the hubble space telescope

    all American, walked the Moon as part of NASA's Apollo program.
  • The Kyoto Protocol was negotiated in Kyoto, Japan in December.

    The Kyoto Protocol was negotiated in Kyoto, Japan in December.

    countries commit to reduce their co2 emissions.
  • U.S. rejects the Kyoto Protocol

    U.S. rejects the Kyoto Protocol

    oppose the Kyoto Protocol because it exempts 80 percent of the world, including major population centers such as China and India, from compliance, and would cause serious harm to the US economy.
  • Space tourist

    Space tourist

  • voyager probes

    voyager probes

    Mission to Interstellar Space. space mission, saturnian system from voyager 1 Heritage Images//Getty Images.
  • space x

    space x

    SpaceX's Dragon cargo ship on May 22, 2012 becomes the first commercial spacecraft to visit the ISS. 2014: comet landing.

  • U.S. announces it will cease participation in the Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation

    Donald Trump announced that the United States would cease all participation in the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation, contending that the agreement would "undermine" the U.S. economy, and put the U.S. "at a permanent disadvantage."

  • U.S. announces it will rejoin the Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation

    President Biden signed an executive order to rejoin the Paris Agreement on January 20, 2021, his first day in office; the US rejoined on February 19, 2021.