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Important dates in Space Exploration.

By NoahKeller1

  • Philadelphia Committee

    Philadelphia committee led by Benjamin Franklin attempts to regulate waste disposal and water pollution.

  • Publish of Walden

    Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden

  • A new term is coined in German

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

  • A term for acid rain is coined

    The term acid rain is coined by Robert Angus Smith in the book Air and Rain

  • A term called smog is coined

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

  • The National Park Service is created

    US Congress created the National Park Service
  • The world's first artificial satellite

    The world's first artificial satellite

    The first satellite named Sputnik 1 was launched by the USSR and was the first man-made object to leave the Earth's atmosphere.
  • The First Creatures to return alive from space

    The First Creatures to return alive from space

    Two monkeys were launched into space by the US on a Jupiter missile where both of the monkeys survived and came back.
  • The first man in space

    The first man in space

    The USSR sent Yuri Gagarin into space in a Vostok spacecraft and he made a single orbit around the earth in 108 minutes.

  • A book called Silent Spring is published

    Rachel Carson publishes Silent Spring
  • The first woman in space

    The first woman in space

    A woman named Valentina Tershkova was launched into space by the Soviet Union and became the first woman to be launched into space and circled the Earth 49 times in 3 days.
  • First ever spacewalk

    First ever spacewalk

    A Russian cosmonaut named Alexi Leonov stepped into space and it was from the two-man Voskhod spacecraft.

  • The Apollo 8 picture of Earthrise

  • First man on the moon

    First man on the moon

    An American named Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the Moon and helped the US win the race to the Moon.

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

  • The first space station is launched

    The first space station is launched

    Russia launched a space station called Salyut but later on the first crew that docked it ended up dying during re-entry due to air leaks.
  • Free-flying in space

    Free-flying in space

    A man named Bruce McCandless became the first person to do a spacewalk without being attached to the spacecraft. He used a jet-propelled backpack to move around.

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

  • The Kyoto Protocol was negotiated in Kyoto, Japan in December. Countries commit to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide

  • Assembly of ISS

    Assembly of ISS

    A big space station that is used for by many countries.

  • U.S. rejects the Kyoto Protocol

  • First space tourist

    First space tourist

    A billionaire businessman named Dennis Tito became the first paying passenger to go to outer space and paid $20m for his trip.

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

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