Space Exploration

By cn19544

  • Galileo is first to use a telescope to study stars.

  • Galileo discovers the moons of Jupiter.

  • Newton discovers the composition of light

  • Halley's Comet appears

  • Isaac Newton presents his theory of optics

  • Hutton starts scientific geology

  • William Herschel discovers infrared rays

  • Alessandro Volta produces electricity and invents the battery, the first source of current, advancing the study of electricity and magnetism.

    The volt is named in his honor.
  • First man made object in orbit

    First man made object in orbit

    Sputnik 1 the first man made object to get into orbit was put out by the USSR and stayed in orbit untill 1/4/1958
  • First animal in orbit

    First animal in orbit

    Sputnik 2 carried the first animal, a dog named Laika for 7 days it was launched by the USSR
  • First USA satellite in orbit

    First USA satellite in orbit

    Explorer 1 lifts off at Cape Canaveral. It carries a scientific experiment of James A. Van Allen, and discovers the Earth's radiation belt.

  • Explorer 2

    Launches and fails to reach orbit. Sent out by the USA

  • Luna 1

    first man-made satellite to orbit the moon, is launched by the U.S.S.R

  • Tiros 1

    the first successful weather satellite, is launched by the U.S

  • Vostok 2

    launched by the U.S.S.R., carrying Gherman Titov, the first day-long Soviet space flight.

  • Mercury Friendship 7

    John H. Glenn, Jr., the first American in orbit, and orbits the Earth three times.

  • Ranger 7

    US relays the first close-range photographs of the Moon.

  • Mariner 4

    US returns the first close-range images about Mars.

  • Luna 9

    Soviet is the first spacecraft to soft-land on the moon.
  • Apollo 11

    Apollo 11

    Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, Jr. make the first manned soft landing on the Moon, and the first moonwalk. US
  • Columbia

    Columbia

    The first manned mission of the Space Transportation System is launched. US

  • Venera 13

    Venera 13 lands on Venus, and provides the first Venusian soil analysis. US

  • Challenger

    The space shuttle lifts off for its first mission and has the first American space walk in nine years. Crew: Paul Weitz, Karol Bobko, Donald Peterson, and Story Musgrave. US

  • Challenger

    Bruce McCandless takes the first untethered space walk using MMU from the space shuttle. US
  • Atlantis

    Atlantis

    The fourth space shuttle Atlantis takes off on its first mission. Crew: Karol J. Bobko, Ronald J. Grabe, Robert A. Stewart, David C. Hilmers, and William A. Pailes. US
  • Challenger explodes

    Challenger explodes

    explodes shortly after liftoff US

  • Discovery

    Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off on a 10-day mission, its 24th and the last shuttle docking with Mir. US

  • International Space Station, Zarya

    1st part of ISS launched on a Russian rocket. This Russian built, U.S. financed module provides communications, electrical power, and attitude control for the station until the arrival of the third module. Both Russia and US

  • Endeavour

    12 day mission to the ISS. They install the first set of ISS's solar panels and radiators for removing heat. US

  • Soyuz spacecraft TM-32

    lifts off for the ISS with the first space tourist, business executive Dennis Tito, who pays the Russians $20 million for the ride. Russia