Space wallpapers 6

Space Exploration

By Amanda_Fuller

  • Telescope by: Glaileo Galilie

    Telescope by: Glaileo Galilie
    The first spotting of the moon through a telescope, by: Galileo Galilie.

  • Liquid Fueled Rockets

    Robert H. Goddard launches first liquid fueled rockets

  • German Military Rocket

    First German military liquid fueled rockets developed

  • Soviet Union

    Soviet Union
    Soviet Union launches first rocket of there own

  • Fruit Flys

    First animals launched into space (fruit flies) by the U.S.

  • Laika

    Laika
    First animal launched into orbit, dog named Laika launched by USSR and did not return alive

  • Solar Wind

    Solar Wind
    First detection of solar wind by USSR

  • Landing Safely (Plants & Animals)

    First plants and animals to return to earth safely/alive from the Earth's orbit

  • Valentina Tereshkova

    First women in space by USSR

  • Neil Armstrong

    First human on moon by the U.S. (Apollo 11) successful!

  • Mars

    First soft landing on Mars and first signals from the surface

  • Spacecraft

    First spacecraft beyond the orbit of Neptune by U.S. NASA

  • Solar System

    First photograph of the whole solar system by U.S. NASA

  • Polar orbit (Sun)

    First polar orbit around the Sun by U.S. NASA and the ESA

  • Kepler Mission

    Kepler Mission launched first space telescope designated for research of Earth's expoplanets by USA

  • Asteroid

    Asteroid
    First sample of an asteroid brought back to earth by Japan

  • Rover

    Rover
    NASA rover successfully lands on mars to seek out life-clues by U.S. NASA