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Galileo was the first person to look through a telescope at space in 1610, and discovered objects in space that he had never seen before like moons and other objects in space.
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Galileo was the first person to ever look at the moon through a telescope in 1610. He also discovered the four largest moons orbiting Jupiter. They were all later named after him as the Galilean moons.
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In 1670 Sir Isaac Newton built a telescope that used curved or concave mirrors. The type of telescope he made was a reflecting telescope
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The first American Robert Goddard, to build a rocket that used fuel was launched in 1926.
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In 1933 Soviet Union launches first rocket of their own.
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The first artificial satellite was launched by the USSR on October 4, 1957.
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On 1961 April 12 a Russian Cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin was the first person in space.
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On December 21 of 1968 Apollo eight of NASA was the first group of astronauts to orbit the moon.
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Apollo 11 successfully landed on the moon for the first time for NASA on July 20, 1969.The astronauts who walked on the moon were Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong
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The first US space station was launched on on March,14 of 1973.
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The Hubble space telescope started to begin operations in April 24, 1990. The Hubble space telescope has captured amazing and is named after Edwin Hubble in honor of the NASA astronomer.
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On August 10, 1990 NASA's Magellan spacecraft began mapping the surface of Venus using radar equipment.
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On January 15, 2006 NASA spacecraft Stardust returned safely to Earth in a desert near Salt Lake City with the first dust ever collected from a comet.
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On May 25, 2008 NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander landed safely and began sending images home after a 10-month, 422 million-mile journey. Scientists later reported that the Phoenix had discovered chunks of ice.
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The James Webb space telescope of NASA will be put out to perform operations to replace the old Hubble telescope in sometime around the year of 2014.
