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Exploring Planets and Moons

By laurenfulgham

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

  • Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden

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

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

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

  • US Congress created the National Park Service

  • First Animal Launched Into Space

    First Animal Launched Into Space

    A dog named Laika went to space
  • First Human to Orbit Earth

    First Human to Orbit Earth

    Yury Gagarin was the first person to orbit Earth

  • Rachel Carson publishes Silent Spring

  • First Woman in Space

    First Woman in Space

    Valentina Tereshvoka was the first woman to ever go to space

  • The Apollo 8 picture of Earthrise

  • First humans to orbit the Moon

    First humans to orbit the Moon

    Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders were the first people to orbit the moon
  • First Lunar Landing

    First Lunar Landing

    Neil Armstrong & Edwin Aldrin were the first to walk on 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

  • First Soft Landing on Another Planet

    First Soft Landing on Another Planet

    Venera 7 soft-landed on Venus
  • First Space Station

    First Space Station

    Salyut 1 was the first space station launched
  • First Spacecraft to Soft Land on Mars

    First Spacecraft to Soft Land on Mars

    Mars 3 soft-landed on Mars for the first time
  • First Pictures Transmitted from the surface of MArs

    First Pictures Transmitted from the surface of MArs

    Viking 1 was the first to take pictures from the surface of Mars.

  • 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

  • U.S. rejects the Kyoto Protocol

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

  • First Landing on the Moon's Far Side

    First Landing on the Moon's Far Side

    Chang'e 4 was the first to land on the moons far side

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