Space

By Yeelor

  • Looking at the moon through a telescope

    Galileo Galilei was the first person to see the moon through a telescope.

  • First liquid fuel rocket launched

    Robert H. Goddard launched the first fuel rocket

  • launches first personal rocket with students

    Hermann Oberth launches first personal rocket with students

  • First military rocket

    German liquid fuel rocket for military use

  • Soviet Union first rocket

    They launched their first rocket by their own.

  • Animals launched into space

    The first animates launched into space

  • First research flight by the US

    US research with a v2 rocket
  • First satellite launched by us

    First satellite launched by us

    Explorer 1 was the first satellite launched by us and was a success.
  • The Soviet Union launched the first satellite into space, Sputnik 1.

    The Soviet Union launched the first satellite into space, Sputnik 1.

    Sputnik one was a success and it started the space race.

  • The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 2.

    The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 2 with a dog named Laika. And Laika did not survive the trip.

  • First ballistic missle

    The first ballistic middle made by the Soviet Union
  • Sputnik 5 was launched into space

    Sputnik 5 was launched into space

    Sputnik was launched into space with two dogs named Belka and Strelaka
  • First person in space

    First person in space

    Yuri was the person in space. For Russia

  • First American in space.

    First American launched into space

  • First American in orbit

    Astronaut John Glenn became the first American in orbit.

  • Fist woman in space

    Valenina Nikolayeva Tereshkova became the first woman in space

  • Zond 5

    The Soviet spacecraft Zond 5 was launched and later became the first spacecraft to orbit the moon and return to Earth.

  • Armstrong on the moon

    Armstrong was the first man in the moon and back.

  • The Soviet Union space station

    The Soviet space station Salyut 1 was launched.

  • Voyager 1 & 2 reaching Jupiter and her moons.

    Voyagers 1 and 2 began transmitting images of Jupiter and her moons.

  • Columbia first shuttle launched into space

    Columbia became the first Space Shuttle to be launched.
  • Reaching Saturn

    Reaching Saturn

    Voyager 2 reached Saturn and began transmitting images.

  • Second space shuttle

    The second Space Shuttle, Challenger, was launched
  • First African American in space

    First African American in space

    Guion Bluford became the first African-American in space.

  • Third space shuttle

    August 30 - The third Space Shuttle, Discovery, was launched.
  • Kathryn Sullivan

    Kathryn Sullivan

    Kathryn Sullivan became the first American woman to walk in space.

  • Challenger explosion

    The Space Shuttle Challenger exploded seconds after liftoff
  • Stardusts return

    Stardusts return

    NASA spacecraft Stardust returned safely to Earth in a desert near Salt Lake City with the first dust ever collected from a comet.
  • Kelpler, NASA spacecraft

    Kelpler, NASA spacecraft

    The NASA spacecraft Kepler was launched. Its mission is to search for planets outside our solar system, in a distant area of the Milky Way.
  • NASA launched a luner probe

    NASA launched a luner probe

    NASA launched the unmanned LADEE spacecraft from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. It was the U.S. space agency's third lunar probe in five years.