space exploration

  • Period: 476 to 550

    Aryabhata

    Aryabhata wrote a book on astronamy and mathmatics.
  • Period: Feb 19, 1473 to May 24, 1543

    Copernicus

    In the early 1500s everyone thought that the earth was the centre of the universe but Copernicus thought otherwise.
  • Period: Feb 19, 1473 to

    Galileo

    Galileo discovered that the earth orbits the sun and that it wasnt the other way around with just a 5 centremetre lens telescope
  • Commet

    Commet
    commets are basicly dusty snowballs that orbit the sun.A halleys comet is a comet visible from earth in 75 - 76 years.Halleys comet is named after Edmond G. Halley who was the first to discover that comets where natural phenomena of the solar system.
  • CSIRO

    CSIRO
    CSIRO stands for comenwealth scientific and industrial research organization
  • yuri gagarin

    yuri gagarin
    after the Russian people launched Sputnik 1 in space there next goal was to send a person in space and that person was yuri gagarin.
  • The first animal in space

    The first animal in space
    The first animal in space was a monkey named Albert 1
  • Laika

    Laika
    Laika was a space dog one of the first animals in space. Laika became so famous because his death in space.
  • NASA

    NASA
    NASA stands for national arenautics and space adminastration. NASA does lots of different things one of them is that they make satlelite dishes.
  • mars

    mars
    the viking 1 was the first spacecraft to orbit and land on mars.
  • American space missions

    American space missions
    skylab wanted to prove that humans could live and work in space for extended periods.
  • space shuttle challenger

    space shuttle challenger
    this space shuttle was one of nasas greatest triumphs but it then was disasteres as it exploded.
  • iss

    iss
    The international spacecraft is a spacecraft that orbits around the earth and its also a place where astronauts live.
  • pluto

    pluto
    pluto was downgraded to a dwarf planet because it did not meet the IAU uses to define a full sized planet