Space Exploration

By JT19403
  • Galileo First Gaze Into Telescope

    Galileo First Gaze Into Telescope

    First observation of the night sky. Galileo discovers Jupiters moons and lunar craters on the moon
  • First Photograph Of The Moon Through a Telescope

    First Photograph Of The Moon Through a Telescope

    On 1840, John William Draper took the first recorded picture of the "New World" or otherwise know as the moon
  • First Rocket Launched

    First Rocket Launched

    Robert H Goddard laucnches the first liquid fueled rocket into space.
  • First Pictures of Earth from Space

    First Pictures of Earth from Space

    The space probe, Voyager Two captured the first pictures of earth from space.

  • First Animals in Space

    Fruit flies were the first animals in space and they won't be the last
  • First ICBM Launched

    First ICBM Launched

    The first Inter-Continential Ballisic Missle was launched by Russia
  • First Artificial Satelite

    First Artificial Satelite

    Russia launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite.
  • First Photo of Earth from Orbit

    First Photo of Earth from Orbit

    Explorer 6, made by NASA, took the first pictures of earth from orbit.

  • First Pictures from the Far Side of the Moon

    The USSR's Luna 3, captured pictures of the other side of the moon.

  • First Plants and Animals back from Space

    The first plants and animals saftley made it saftey back from space in Sputnik 5.

  • First Homididae in Space

    The U.S. launch the chimpanzee Ham, into space and ran various tests on him.

  • First Human in Space

    Yuri Gagarin, from the USSR, was the first human in space

  • First Human Piloted Space Craft

    The USA built the human piloted space crafted manned by Alan Shepard

  • First Woman in Space

    The USSR had the first woman flown into space and returned to earth

  • First Reusable Spacecraft

    The first reusable and relaunchable spacecraft wa made by the USA

  • First Space Walk

    The USSR, had the first man, Alexei Leonov, conducted the first 12 minute space walk.
  • First Mars Flyby

    First Mars Flyby

    The USA's Mariner 4 was the first to flyby Mars and capture the first pictures of Mars up close.

  • First Ultraviolet Observatory

    The USA launched OAO-2, the first ultraviolet observatory.
  • First Trans-Earth Ejection

    First Trans-Earth Ejection

    On the same mission to orbit the moon, the USA was the first to do a Trans-Earth Ejection

  • First Human on the Moon

    Neil Armstrong and his team become the first human on the moon.

  • First Soil Samples from Venus

    The USSR received and recovered the first soil samples from Venus.

  • First Spacecraft Beyond Neptuine

    The USA's Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft beyond Neptune

  • First Photo of Whole Solar System

  • First Astroid Fly By

  • First Orbit of Jupiter

    NASA completed the first orbit around Jupiter
  • First Man Made Probe in Interstellar Space

    First Man Made Probe in Interstellar Space

    Voyager 1 successfully made it into interstellar space.

  • First Probe to Land Comet

  • First Orbit of a Dwarf Planet

    The USA were the first to orbit Pluto.
  • First Flyby of Dwarf Planet

    First Flyby of Dwarf Planet

    The spacecraft New Horizions, takes information and photos from Ceres