Space Exploration

By ib19288
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    1609-1956

    space exploration
  • First Spotting

    First Spotting

    The first spotting of the moon through a telescope by Galileo Galilei
  • First liquid fueled rocket launched

    First liquid fueled rocket launched

    Robert Goddard lauches first liquid fuled rockets

  • First liquid fueled rocket launched

    1926-Robert H. Goddard launches first liquid fueled rockets

  • First personal rocket

    The first personal rocket was launched with students by Hermann Oberth

  • First German military Rocket

    First German military liquid fueled rockets were developed

  • First animals

    First animals(fruit flies) launched into space by the U.S.
  • First satelitte to orbit earth

    First satelitte to orbit earth

    1957
    Soviet Union launches first artificial satellite called Sputnik
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    1957-1980

  • First Human in space

    First Human in space

    Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space.

  • American to orbit space

    John Glenn circles Earth three times in 4 hours and 56 minutes.

  • First space walk

    Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov takes the first space walk, a ten-minute tethered excursion outside Voshkod 2.

  • First Reusable Space Vehicle

    The space shuttle Columbia takes John Young and Robert Crippen into space.
  • First Woman in Space

    First Woman in Space

    The first woman in space was Sally Ride
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    1981-present day

  • First Civilian Death

    First Civilian Death

    The space shuttle Challenger explodes, killing all seven crew members
  • First Space Telescope

    First Space Telescope

    The crew of space shuttle mission STS-31 deploy the Hubble Space Telescope.
  • China Sends First Man to Space

    China Sends First Man to Space

    China was the third county to send a human into space; Yang Liwei