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In Europe Galileo built the first telescope and made many improvements to the telescope.
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Made the three basic laws of motion and those explain how rockets work. 1st law: An object in motion will remain in motion unless acted upon by a net force. 2nd law: Force equals mass multiplied by acceleration. 3rd law: For ever action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
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He realized to leave planet Earth you need liquid fuel instead of solid fuel, also realized it is important to find the right balance between amount of fuel a rocket uses and how heavy the rocket is.
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He came up with using liquid fuel and using multiple stages for rockets, also created a system for cooling the gases escaping from a rocket, making the rocket more efficient.
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Hermann Obeth and a team of scientists designed the first human made object to travel into space.
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First American designed rocket to reach space.
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Fruit flies are launched into space in th V-2, making them the first animals in space.
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The Soviet Union launched the first intercontinental ballistic missile.
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The USSR (beating the United States) launched the first artificial satellite ever put into orbit. The launched a Sputnik 1 triggered the space race.
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The Soviets launched sputnik 2 into space and had a dog on it and the dog proved animals can survive in space.
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The first American satellite launched into orbit, discovered radiation.
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration was founded.
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The Russian satellite is launched to hit moon but doesn't and becomes the first man made object to orbit around the sun.
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The second Russian satellite, first man made object to hit our moon.
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Luna 3, a Russian satellite and orbits the moon.
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The United States launched the first weather satellite called Tiros 1.
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Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, Russian first person in space.
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Valentina Tereshkevae was the first women in space by USSR.
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U.S NASA spotted Mars
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Neil Armstrong is the first person to land on the moon.
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The Soviet Union launched the first man made object to land on Mars.
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First space station in space by USSR
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The first orbital flight by NASA.
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NASA launched the first spacecraft to go beyond Neptunes orbit
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NASA did the first Neptune flyby.
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Hubble telescope was launched into low orbit of earth.
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By USA and ESA first polar orbit around the sun.
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The first orbit of Jupiter by the United States.
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Japan, First orbital radio observatory
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NASA, first operational rover on an other planet, Mars.
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First orbit of Pluto by NASA
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USA and Japan first food grown and eaten in space.