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First telescope
The first telescope was created by Hans Lipperhey. He was a Dutch grinder, he created it by combining 2 lens together. -
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Space Exporation Timeline
This Timeline is about all of the inventions during the history of astronomy. -
First time seeing the Moon’s creators
First time man abserbed craters on the Moon, Satellites around Jupiter and witnessed the phase of Venus like those of the Moon. -
First reflecting telescope
Issac Newton built the first successful reflecting telescope. -
The discovery’s of Uranus
William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus. He used a mirror telescope he had made by himself. -
Discovery of Ceres
A man named Guiseppe Piazzi discovered Ceres, the first known astriod. -
Wright Brother made the frist successful flight
In 1903 the first successful flight was made by the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk. -
Sputnik 1 was launched
Solveit Union Lanched Sputnik 1 -
First spacecraft to reason the moon
Luna 1 was the first space craft to reach the moon on January 2nd. Later Luna 2 was the second space craft to be launched in the direction in the Moon on September 12th. -
First close range pictures
U.S. Ranger 7 relays the first close-range photographs of the Moon on July 31 -
The first space walk
The first space walk is made from Soviet Voskhod 2 by Cosmonaut Alexi A Leonorv Duration is 12 minutes -
First person killled in space
Solveit Soyuz 1 is launched, carry Valdimir M Komarov. On April 24 it crashed, killing Komarov, the frist space flight fatality - Arpril 23 -
Frist moon landing 19
Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin Jr make the first manned soft landing on the Moon, and the first moonwalk, using Apollo -
Venera 13
Venera 13 lands on Venus, and provides the first Venusian soil analysis. -
The Challenger
The space shuttle Challenger lifts off for its first mission and has the first Americans space walk in nine years. -
First U.S women in space
Sally K Ride is the first U.S women to travel in space on the Challenger mission STS - 7 -
New comments, asteroids, galaxies, and dust rings
The infrared Astronomical Satellite finds new comets, asteroids, galaxies, and dust rings around the star Vega that may be new planets -
First European tomake 2 space trips
Thomas Reiter becomes the first European Space Agency astronaut to make 2 spacewalks (both from the Russian Mir space station). His space walks before was on October 1995. It lasted 5 hours and 11 minutes. -
Columbia is disintegrated
Space shuttle Columbia disintegrated above Texas during its way back to Earth, killing all 7 members.