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  Galileo invented the refracting telescope in 1610
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  Galileo discovered the four Galilean Moons in 1610.
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  On May 22, 1946, the USA launched the first space flight, it was intended for research.
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  Robert Goddard, of the USA, launched the first liquid fueled rocket in 1924
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  On October 24, 1946, the USA took the first pictures of Earth from space.
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  The Soviet Union was the first organization to detect the solar wind with Luna 1.
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  Sputnik was the first spacecraft to exit the the atmosphere.
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  Russia launched the first animal into space, a dog named Laika.
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  The first men to walk on the moon, they were from the USA.
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  A US lander, named Mars 2, made a soft landing on Mars.
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  The USA invented the first reusable, manned space craft.
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  NASA and ESA created the first space telescope
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  USA landed th first operational rover on Mars.
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  FKA, USA, ESA, JAXA, and Russia team up to created the first international space station.
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  ESA launched Rosetta the first landing on a comet.