space exploration timeline

First telescopic observation of the night sky

1610

Telescopic photograph of the moon

1840

Proposal of using rockets for space flight

1861

Liquid fueled rocket

1926

launched by Goddard

First space research flight

May 10, 1946

V2 rocket

First pictures of earth from 105 kilometers

Oct 24, 1946

First living species in space

1947

fruit fly

First artificial satellite

Oct 4, 1957

Sputnik 1

First mammal in space

Nov 3, 1957

Laika the dog

First human in space

Apr 12, 1961

Yuri Gagarin

First orbital solar observatory

Mar 7, 1962

First woman in space

1963

Valentina Tereshkova

First artificial satellite around the Moon

1966

First man on the moon

1969

Neil armstrong onboard Apollo-11

First space station

Apr 19, 1971

Salyut1

First soft landing on mars

Dec 2, 1971

First Indian Satellite

1975

Aryabhatta

First photos and soil samples from mars

1976

Viking Lander

First Indian in space

Apr 3, 1984

Rakesh Sharma

First photograph of the entire solar system

1990

voyager 1

first working rover on mars

Jul 4, 1997

mars pathfinder

Major space loss

2003

The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in which Kalpana Chawla died.

Discovery of lunar water in form of ice

2008

Chandrayaan-1 mission by India

First space telescope to find other planets like earth

2009

kepler mission

Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM)

2013

(Mangalyaan-1)

First food grown in space eaten

Aug 10, 2015

Lettuce

First direct photograph of a black hole and its vicinity

Apr 10, 2019