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Sir Isaac Newton discovers the three laws of motion and shares it with the world. He published a book called Philosophae Naturalis Principia. It is known as the most important scientific books ever written.
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British mathmatician William Moore publishes Treatise on the Motion of Rockets. All of the information in the book is based off of Newtons three laws of motion.
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U.S. Rocket scientist Robert H. Goddard created it. It only reached about 41 feet, 60 miles and hour and lasted only about 2 1/2 seconds but it was known as a big milestone in space exploration.
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Germany launched the first man-made object to make it into space.
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In 1947, fruit flies were sent to the moon to see how they would survive space travel. They launched in New Mexico.
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It was launced by Soviet Union
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NASA is officially founded.
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Russian satelitte Luna 1 officially hit the surface of the moon
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A russian man by the name of Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was the first human to ever be in space. The flight lasted about an hour and 48 minutes.
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The first American astronaut was launched into space. His name was Alan Shepard Jr.
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STS-1 was launched into space from Columbia. It was used as a test flight to try the spacecraft systems.
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Voyager 2 goes to Saturn and takes the first pictures of the planets
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They used a rover to put on mars to take higher quality pictures of the planet.
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They sent the NEAR (Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous) spacecraft into space to study the gravity of an asteroid and its surface.
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After a ten year, 4 billion mile journey,the Rosetta spacecraft orbited around the comet. It took magnificent images of the comets surface.
