Space exploration science 10/20/2014

1600-2014

Period: Jan 1, 1600 to Nov 21, 2014

Galileo makes his fiirst telescope

Jan 1, 1609

Robert H. Goddard launches first liquid-fueled rockets

Jan 1, 1926

USA

Herman Obereth launches first personal rocket with students

Jan 1, 1929

Romania

First German military liquid fueled rockets developed

Jan 1, 1931

Germany

First research flight launched by U.S.A. captured by the V-2 space rocket.

Jan 1, 1946

USA

First animal launched into orbit, dog named Lucy, didn’t return back alive.

Jan 1, 1957

USSR
Sputnik 2

First ballistic intercontinental missle

Aug 19, 1957

USSR
SS-6 Sapwood

First firing out of Earth’s orbit

Jan 2, 1959

USSR
Luna 1

First hominade in space (chimpanzee)

Sep 13, 1959

USA

First woman in space (Valentina Tereshkova)

Jun 16, 1963

USSR
Vostok 6

First Venus soil samples and sound recordings from another world

Mar 1, 1982

USSR
Venera 13

First spacecraft to pass all the planets in our solar system

Jun 19, 1983

USA
Pioneeer 10

First operational rover on another planet

Jul 4, 1997

USA
Mars Pathfinder

First telescope sent to look for Earth-like planets in the solar system.

Mar 6, 2009

USA
Kepler Mission

First manmade probe to land on a comet

Nov 10, 2014

ESA
Part of the ESA Cornerstone 2000 missions