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Galileo made his first telescope in 1609, modeled after telescopes produced in other parts of Europe that could magnify objects three times. He created a telescope later that same year that could magnify objects twenty times
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1610- The first spotting of the moon through a telescope by Galileo Galilei
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1926-Robert H. Goddard launches first liquid fueled rockets
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1929-Hermann Oberth launches first personal rocket with students
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1931-First German military liquid fueled rockets developed
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1957-First animal launched into orbit, dog named Laika launched by USSR and did not return alive
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1957-First artificial satellite put into space that brings back signals to earth launched by the Soviet Union
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1957-First ballistic rocket missle produced by the USSR
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August 19 - The Soviet craft Sputnik 5 was launched, carrying the dogs Strelka and Belka. They became the first living beings to survive a trip into space.
1960 -
November 13 - Voyager 1 first to return images from its reached Saturn and began transmitting images.
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April 4 - The second Space Shuttle, Challenger, was launched
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July 4 - The Mars Pathfinder arrived on Mars and later began transmitting images. 1997
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April 28 - American Dennis Tito became the first tourist in space after paying the Russian space program $20,000,000 2001
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September 21 - NASA’s Galileo mission ended a 14-year exploration of the solar system’s largest planet and its moons with the spacecraft crashing by design into Jupiter at 108,000 mph.
2003 -
January 14 - President Bush proposed a new space program that would send humans back to the moon by 2015 and establish a base to Mars and beyond.
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