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Space Exploration Timeline

By mm19257

  • The first telescope was created.

    Hans Lipperhey, a Dutch lens grinder combined two lenses.
  • Period: to

    1609-1956

  • The first spotting of the moon through a telescope by Galileo Galilei

  • Robert H. Goddard launches first liquid fueled rockets

  • First research flight launched by the U.S

  • First animals launched into space, fruit flies, by the U.S

  • Period: to

    1957-1980

  • Launch of Explorer 1

  • Luna 1 was the first spacecraft to reach the Moon

  • First Man in Space

  • The first space walk is made from Soviet Voskhod 2

    By Cosmonaut Alexei A. Leonov. Duration is 12 minutes, USSR misson: Voskhod 2

  • the first spaceflight fatality.

    Vladimir M. Komarov, in the Soviet Soyuz 1 crashed and killed him.

  • Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, Jr. make the first manned soft landing on the Moon, and the first moonwalk, using Apollo 11

    Misson: Apollo 11, US NASA, Armstrong and Alrdin are the first americans on the moon.
  • Period: to

    1981-present day

  • Venera 13 lands on Venus + provides the first Venusian soil analysis

    Misson: Venera 13, USSR, First Venus soil samples & sound recording of another world.

  • First photograph of the whole solar system

    M[isson: Voyager 1 U.S NASA, Voyager 1 takes the first photo of the entire solar system

  • First orbit of Saturn

    mission: Cassini–Huygens, NASA (US), ESA, and ASI the unmanned spacecraft completes its orbit after being sent out in october 17th, 1997

  • First manmade probe in interstellar space

    Misson: Voyager 1, NASA U.S the Voyager 1 reaches out of the solar system.

  • First manmade probe to land on a comet

    Misson: Philae lander, ESA The Philae is carried onto the comet by the Rosetta Probe