space exploration

By dancergirl1105
  • Period: 476 to 500

    Aryabhata

    Aryabhata was a mathematician and he was famous because he was the one that discovered that the moon and the planets reflect the light from the sun so if the sun was not around then you wouldn't be able to see the moon and he also was the the first to descover that the world wasn't flat it was round and to see how many days there was in a year
  • Period: Feb 19, 1473 to May 24, 1543

    Copernicus

    Copernicus was a scientist, when he was around people thought that the earth was the centre of the universe and people also thought that stars were small gas balls.Copernicus19 February 1473
    thought what if the universe isn't centered on the earth what if the earth circled the sun? He was right!!!
  • Period: Feb 15, 1564 to

    Galileo

    galileo was mathematician and an astronomer he was famous for finding out what the earth was made of. Galileo herd of a telescope and built one to look at the universe.Galileo found out that the milyway was made up of thousands of stars

  • CSIRO

    CSIRO stands for Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation.CSIRO was founded in 1926

  • first animal in space

    the first animal in space was fruit flies they got taken to space in Feb. 20, 1947 by a guy named albert

  • NASA

    NASA stands for National Aeronautics and Space Administration.NASA wants to reach a height that no one has reached before and discover unknown things for human kind

  • Yuri Gagarin

    Yuri Gagarin was famouse because he flew a space shuttle into space on the 12 of april 1961his space shuttle was called the vistok.

  • Marsnik 1

    The first satelite thet landed on mars was called Marsnik 1.

  • space crafts and space shuttles

    There are 5 different space shuttles and one of the differences is that on the botton of one it is curved and the other one is flat and looks a bit like a plane so you can reuse it again. The first space shuttle ever to be launched was April 12, 1981 and the last one to be launched was in July 21, 2011

  • apollo

    September 12, 1987 apollo startede running. the main purpose of apollo was to land on the moon first in the space race

  • the first satelitte

    America was the first country to launch a satelitte into space to orbit the earth the name of the first satelitte was sputnik 1

  • the international space station

    The International Space Station is a large spacecraft. It orbits around Earth. It is a home where astronauts live