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The first telescope
The first telescope was built by Galileo in 1608. -
Look Into the sky
In 1610, Galileo looked at the night sky through the first telescope. -
Draw the sky
Galileo made the drawing on the left in 1610. -
Telescope 2.0!
Around 1670, Sir Isaac Newton built a different kind of telescope. Newton's telescope used curved mirrors instead of lenses to focus light. -
TO SPACE
Robert Goddard with the first American rocket to use liquid fuel. This rocket was launched in 1926. -
The Russian started a race
The USSR launched Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957 -
The US wins the race
The answer came eight years After Kennedy's challenge, on July 20, 1969. NASA’s Apollo 11 mission put astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the Moon. -
Apollo 17
The last was Apollo 17. This mission landed on December 11, 1972. -
To the skylab
Skylab was launched in May 1973 -
The return of the SKYLAB
Skylab reentered Earth’s atmosphere in 1979, sooner than expected. -
The space station
The space station has had people on board since 2000. -
Send the Columbia once more!
The second occurred during the takeoff of the Columbia on January 16, 2003. -
The Saturn rings and moons
The Cassini mission has been studying Saturn, including its rings and moons, since 2004. -
Where is the duck tape
The last repair mission to the Hubble happened in 2009. -
Found Atlantis
The International Space Station, as photographed from the Space Shuttle Atlantis in May 2010
