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Robert Gaddard, the father of the modern rocketry, invented the liquid fuel rocket
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The space age began on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union lounched Sputnik
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the United State lounch his first satellite named Explorer 1.
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On April 12, 1961 Yuri Ggarin became the first person to travel in space.
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John Glenn became the first American to orbit the earth.
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In 1963, Valentina Tereshkova the pilot of Vostok 6, became the first woman to fly in space
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In 1964 the Sovietic accomplished another first by launching three cosmonauts aboard a single spacecraft
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America respond to the Voskhod whit the Gemenin program
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Apollo 11 On july 20, 1969 as the apollo columbia orbited the moon
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in 1971 the UUSR launched salyut
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on december, 16 1072 the last astronauts to visit the moon boarded the lm challenger and took off from the moons surface.
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the United State launched its first space station.
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On april, 1981 the United States launched the space shuttle
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in 1984 president Ronald Reagan called on the united states to contruct a new station by 1990
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the Soviet Union launched the space station Mir
