Space Exploration Timeline By Ak20326 Jan 1, 1608 The first telescope was built by Galileo. Jan 1, 1610 The first time Galileo looked though the first telescope at the stars. Jan 1, 1670 Sir Isaac Newton built a different kind of telescope, the first reflecting telescope. A reflecting telescope has a concave mirror. Jan 1, 1851 Leon Foucault a forechecking sicenist hung a heavy iron weight from a long wire. He made this to see how the garvity works. Jan 1, 1957 The Soviet Union launched the first satellite, Sputnik, into space Jan 1, 1958 The first U.S. Satellite explorer 1 went into orbit. Jan 1, 1961 Alan Shepard became the first American to fly into space. Jan 1, 1965 The first artificial satellite was launched. Jan 1, 1968 The Soviet spacecraft 2 and 5 were launched and later was the first space craft to orbit the moon and return to earth. Jan 1, 1969 The Apollo 11 team landed on the moon. Jan 1, 1970 The Soviet venera 7 became the frist probe to land on Venus. Jan 1, 1971 The moon rover was driven on the moon for the first time. Jan 1, 1973 The U.S. Launched its first space station, Skylab. Jan 1, 1986 Voyager 2 began transmitting images from unarus Jan 1, 1989 Voyager 2 began transmitting ting images from Neptune.
