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Galileo Gailei was the first to discover the moon's craters, Venus' phases and Jupiter.
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The first presentation made out to the public about the "rocket equation" was introduced by William Moore, based on Newton's third law.
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The first clear photograph of the moon was taken by U.S astronomer John William Draper.
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U.S astronomer Robert H. Goddard is awarded the first patent for liquid fueled and multi-stage rockets.
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Members Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Friedrich Zander, Yuri Kondratyuk all participated in the founding of the Society for Studies of Interplanetary Travel.
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Robert H. Goddard launches the first liquid fueled rocket in 1926.
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Verein für Raumschiffahrt (Society for Space Travel) was founded in 1927. The society included many famous european rocket scientists.
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Walter Riedel, a German engineer, was the first to develop the German liquid fueled rocket engines for the military.
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Members Sergey Korolev and Friedrich Zander of GIRD, (Group for the Study of Reactive Motion), launch their soviet liquid fueled rocket on August 17, 1933.
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An American rocket, (V2), takes up the first animal to be in space, (Fruit Flys), on February 20th 1947.
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U.S astronaut Alan Shepard, was the first human being to operate a rocket in space. This rocket was Freedom7.
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Russia was the first country to perform a planet fly by. They came about 100,000 km away from venus. Unfortunately, no data was returned.
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Russian woman, Valentina Tereshkova, was the first woman in space, as of June 16th, 1963
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USA rocket, Mariner 2 was the first spaceflight to get close-up photographs of mars.
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Russian rocket, Luna 9, was the first rocket to land softly on the moon and get close up photos of the moon.
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The russian spacecraft, Venera 3, was the first rocket to crash into another planet, (venus).
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Neil Armstrong, an american astronaut, was the first human being to walk on the moon. Apollo 11 was also the first spacecraft to lanch off another planet.
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The Russian spacecraft named Luna 16, was the first spacecraft to return with a sample from the moon.
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The first space station was salyut 1, built and operated by the Soviet Union on April 19th, 1971
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USA space rover, Curiosity was the first space rover to get soil samples and surface pictures of mars.
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The first spacecraft beyond the borders of our solar system was American, Pioneer 10.
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On February 7th, 1984, Bruce Mcandless was the first human being to float in space untethered. Bruce Mcandless was an american astronaut.
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The U.S Voyager 1 was the first spacecraft to get a photo of the entire solar system.
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The first polar orbit around the sun was led by the U.S and Europe.
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The record-holding duration of being up in space is 437.7 days by the Russian spacestation Mir.
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The first sample return from the asteroid 25143 Itokawa was performed by space probe Hayabusa, by the Japanese.
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Philae, a European probe, was the first probe to make a planned and soft landing on the comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko on November 12th 2014.
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Dawn, an American spacecraft is the first planet to orbit around two protoplanets, (Vesta, Ceres), on March 6th, 2015.
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The American spacecraft, New Horizons, was the spacecraft who had the last encounter with one of the nine major planets in the solar system, Pluto, before it lost it's role as a planet and became a dwarf planet.
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On August 10th, 2015, the first grown food in space was eaten. This was a huge success, because growing fresh food up in space could cut the costs down greatly and provide astronauts on a spacecraft fresh food. Both the American NASA and the Japanese JAXA was involved in this important event.