Space Exploration Timeline

Galileo discovers Jupiter's moons, and lunar craters

1610

Using a telescope Galileo studied the moon and other planets

Rober H. Goddard the first liquid-fueled rocket

Mar 16, 1926

Rober H. Goddard the first liquid-fueled rocket

First U.S.-designed rocket to reach edge of space 80 km

May 22, 1942

First U.S.-designed rocket to reach edge of space 80 km

Soviets launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1

Oct 4, 1957

The first artificial satilite launched by the soviets. Named Sputnik 1 first man made object in space

First animal in space

Nov 3, 1957

First animal in orbit, the dog Laika. Put up by the USSR.

First image of earth from orbit

Aug 7, 1959

The space mission explorer 6 took the first photograph of Earth from space

First animals and plants return alive from earths orbit

Aug 18, 1960

First animals and plants return alive from earths orbit

First human manned spacecraft in orbit

Apr 12, 1961

Vostok 1 put Yuri Gagarin in to orbit USSR

First successful space flight

May 5, 1961

Passengers safety returned to earth

First man on the moon

Jun 20, 1969

NASA put Neil Armstrong and his crew on the moon

First lunar rover

Nov 17, 1970

USSR put the first lunar rover on the moon

First reusable space shuttle

Apr 12, 1981

NASA creates first reusable space shuttle

Challenger exploded

Jan 28, 1986

The challenger exploded with a teacher on it

First operational rover on another planet

Jul 4, 1987

Rover on mars

Hubble telescope launched

1990

Disfunction in the lense caused another flight to come up after to repair it

First deep space telescope

Mar 6, 2009

To look for another earth like planet