space exploration

By ds19042

  • Isaac Newton

    Newton comes out with his Laws of Motion

  • Exploring Rockets

    They where studying rockets using Newton's 3rd Law of Motion.

  • Reaction device

    It is very serious work that has to be published

  • Goddard's rocket patents

    U.S. rocket scientist Robert H. Goddard receives two landmar.

  • Goddard's Famous Publication

    Robert Goddard publishes A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes.

  • Soviet Rocket Society Established

    The Soviet Union establishes the Society for Studies of Interplanetary Travel.

  • Goddard launches a rocket

    Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket

  • Group for the Study of Reactive Motion

    (GIRD) launches the first Soviet liquid-fueled rocket

  • First vehicle to cross the Kármán lin

    First vehicle to cross the Kármán lin

  • First space research flight

    (cosmic radiation experiments)

  • Luna 1,

    First man-made satellite to orbit the sun, is launched by Russia
  • Sputnik 1 is Launched by Russians

    Sputnik 1 is Launched by Russians

  • Vostok 6

    carries Soviet Cosmonaut Valentia Tereshkova, the first woman in space and orbits the Earth 48 times.

  • Gemini 7

    A is launched carrying Frank Borman and James A. Lovell, Jr., making 206 orbits around Earth and proving a trip to the Moon possible.
  • U.S. Lunar Orbiter 1 enters moon

    U.S. Lunar Orbiter 1 enters moon

    and takes the first picture of the Earth from the distance of the moon.