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Space Exploration Timeline

By aw19007
  • Treatise on the Motion of Rockets

    Treatise on the Motion of Rockets

    First exposition of the rocket equation based on Newton's third law of motion
    by William Moore
    Country: UK
  • Launches first liquid fueled rocket

    Launches first liquid fueled rocket

    Launches first liquid fueled rocket
    By Robert H. Goddard
    Country: USA
  • V-2 rocket, military program

    V-2 rocket, military program

    First vehicle to cross the Kármán line (100 km/~62 mi above the Earth's surface) and thereby enter outer space
    Country: Germany
  • WAC Corporal

    WAC Corporal

    First U.S. deisgned rocket to reach edge of space
    Country: USA
  • V-2

    V-2

    First animals in space (fruit flies)
    Country: USA
  • Sputnik 2

    Sputnik 2

    Country: USSR
    First animal in orbit, the dog Laika (picture to the left)
  • Luna 1

    Luna 1

    First detection of solar wind
    Country: USSR
  • Explorer 6

    Explorer 6

    First photograph of Earth from orbit
    Country: USA
  • Vostok 6

    Vostok 6

    First women in space (Valentina Tereshkova)
    Country: USSR

  • Viking Lander

    First photos and soil samples from surface of Mars
    Country: USA
  • Voyager 1

    Voyager 1

    First photograph of the whole solar system
    Country: USA
  • Galileo

    Galileo

    First orbit of Jupiter
    Country: USA
  • MESSENGER

    MESSENGER

    First orbit of Mercury
    Country: USA
  • Voyager 1

    Voyager 1

    First manmade probe in interstellar space.
    Country: USA
  • Philae Lander, carried by Rosetta probe

    Philae Lander, carried by Rosetta probe

    First manmade probe to land on a comet part of the ESA Horizon 2000 cornerstone missions
    Country: ESA