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animals to be in space
the first animals sent into space were fruit flies aboard a u.s.-launched V-2 rocket on 20 February 1947 from white sands missile range -
first balloon flight
First balloon flight by Aeromedical field laboratory . Dummy load test reached 97,000 feet. payload recovered after 5-hour flight -
Soviet R-1A
Soviet R-1A rocket carried dogs Smelaya and Rzhik reached 62 miles recovered . (USSR) -
Aermedical Field Laborator balloon flight #7
Aermedical Field Laborator balloon flight #7. Carried animal capsule with cosmic ray film plates, cat, and three hamsters; balloon reached 103,600 feet. Capsule not recovered for 2 months. (USA) -
Aeromedical Field Laboratory balloon flight #9.
Aeromedical Field Laboratory balloon flight #9. Carried cosmic ray film plates; balloon reached 92,000 feet. Prompt recovery. (USA) -
Aeromedical Field Laboratory balloon flight #15
Aeromedical Field Laboratory balloon flight #15. Test of tandem balloon technique; balloon reached 94,000 feet. (USA) -
animals to be in space
dog - the name of the dog -Laika -
pioneer 1
pioneer 1: first NASA launch -
The united states
The United states sent pioneer 4 to the moon, successfully making the first U.S. lunar flyby -
animals to be in space
monkeys -may 28,1959 - able & miss Berker -
animals to be in space
chips- January 31,1961 - Ham -
how they launch people into space
The USSR launched the first human in space,Yuri Gagarin into a single orbit in vostok 1 on a Vosstok 3KA rocket , on April 12,1961 -
how they launched people into space
The us launched it first astronaut,Alan Shepard on a suborbital fight aboard freedom 7 on a mercury-Redstone Rocket -
how they launched people into space
The first american in orbit was John Glenn aboard friendship 7, launched February 20, 1962, on a mercury-Atlas rocket . -
how they launched people into space
The USSR launched five more cosmonauts in vostok capsule, including the first woman in space , Valentina Tereshkova aboard voctok 6 -
animals to be in space
cat - October 18,1963 -
how they launched people into space
They were able to launch two orbital flights in 1964 and 1965 and achieved the first spacewalk, made by Alexei Leonov on Voskhod 2 -
the first man to walk on the moon
Neil Alden Armstrong ( August 5, 1930 - August 25 ,2012 was an american astronaut and the first person to walk on the moon , he was also an aerospace engineer, naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor -
how they launched people into space
China did not successfully launch it's first satellite until -
Pioneer 10
Pioneer 10: the first flyby of Jupiter -
SMS-A
SMS-A: The launch of the first geosynchronous weather satellite -
the shuttle program lifts off
Columbia roarded into the skies above Florida's Kennedy space center on April 12,1981,kicking off the shuttle program with astronauts john young and bob crippen at the controls -
sally ride
astronaut sally K. Ride became the first american woman in space on June 18, 1983, lifting off on the space shuttle challenger -
Guy Bluford
astronaut Guy Bluford became the first African-american in space in August of 1983, on a mission which also saw the first nighttime launch and landing of a shuttle -
how they launched people into space
Svetlana Savitskayar became the first woman to walk in space -
Hubble space telescope
Hubble was launched on April 24, 1990 on aboard space shuttle discovery and orbits 600 kilometers (375 miles) above Earth -
Galileo
Galileo: Probe released into Jupiter's atmosphere -
animals to be in space
Nematodes 18-19 2002 -
how they launch people into space
The first private human spaceflight took place on 21 June 2004 -
The person who created the rocket
modern rocketry was invented by Dr.Robert Goddard , for this he is known as the father of modern rocketry.He created the first successful liquid fuel rocket, adding the nozzle design that is so common today July 21,2009 -
how they launched people into space
on 31 December 2012, a NASA-supported study reported that spaceflight may harm the brain of astronauts and accelerate the onset of Alzheimer's disease