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Galileos Enhancment of the Teliscope
Galileo learns of the recent invention, the telescope. He returned to Padua and is able to improve the magnification of the telescope he bought to 32 powers. I think this is very important becasue he enhanced the teliscope! If he didn't, would we even have been able to see space with telescopes? Maybe. But I htink It would have been years. This is important becasue people use telescopes for so many important things to this day. -
Spotting Jupiter's Moon
The first sighting of Jupiter's moon through a telescope by Galileo Galilei. He was a professer at the university of Padua.Galileo’s telescope was only an inch-and-a-half in diameter. Since he did this, we found out that we could see space with the teliscope and widen our perspective of the universe. -
Robert Goddard
After climbing a cherry tree, Robert Goddard resolved to pursue his dream of space flight. He was involved in the creating and building of the first liquid fueled rockets. Thanks to this guy, we have taken rockets into space for more exploring. That is pretty important. -
Spaceflight
First U.S. built rocket to leave the earth's atmosphere reached a 50-mile height. Spaceflight can occur with or without a human present. A spaceflight typically begins with a rocket launch, which provides the initial thrust to overcome the force of gravity. It is amazing. A rocket that can blast off from Earth without a human aboard. If something happend to the rocket then no one would get injered or worse. -
Pictures of Earth
First pictures of earth at 65 miles. The United States were in charge of this operation. It was a black and white grainy picture. Scientists went crazy over this photo. Because of these pictures, we found out what Earth looked like above the surface! The very planet we live on and all the pictures of it that helpe us learn geography and so much more, started with this one picture. -
First Satellite
The Soviet Union launched the first satellite, Sputnik, into space. The world's first artificial satellite was about the size of a beach ball. While the Sputnik launch was a single event, it marked the start of the space age and the U.S.-U.S.S.R space race. Satallites play a huge role for us. It started the space race. The space race being like a compitition to see which country was better, in a way. -
John F. Kennedy
President Kennedy challenged the country to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade.Kennedy felt great pressure to have the United States "catch up to and overtake" the Soviet Union in the "space race." He wanted to announce a program that the U.S. had a strong chance at achieving before the Soviet Union. He gave speeches and encouraged everyone to achive in the space race. -
Pictures
The spacecraft Mariner 4 transmitted the first pictures of Mars. Mariner 4 revealed Mars to have a cratered, rust-colored surface, with signs on some parts of the planet that liquid water had once traveled through the soil. The pictures took four days to transmit back to Earth. Thanks to this, now we learned more about space, mars, and other planets. -
Apollo 11
Neil Armstrong and "Buzz" Aldrin became the first men on the moon. Neil first and Buzz Aldrin followed about 20 minutes later. Armstrong was commander of Apollo 11 and Aldrin was the lunar modulel piolite. This was huge. They went into the very depths of depths of space. We learnd so many new things about the universe and the moon. Also of cource space and the travel it took to get there. -
Apollo 15
The moon rover was driven on the moon for the first time. Three countries have had rovers on the Moon: the Soviet Union, the United States and China. The moon rover has helped us learn how the moon became what it is and how other planets formed by gathering samples. -
Voyeger 2
Voyager 2 reached Saturn and began transmitting images. Launched by NASA from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral, Florida, aboard a Titan IIIE/Centaur launch vehicle. Again this also enhanced our knowledge of Saturn and the other planets. -
STS-7 mission
Sally Ride became the first American woman in space on Challenger’s second mission. She was an American physicist and astronaut. She proved that women can do important jobs like going into space and that women can be astronauts. -
Hubble Space Teliscope
The Space Shuttle Discovery deployed the Hubble Space Telescope. This telescope still remains in operation. It allows itself to take extremely high-resolution images with almost no background light. Thanks to thease pictures we can learn more about space and how it came to be. -
STS-61
NASA launched the largest-diameter infrared telescope ever in space, the Spitzer Space Telescope. The telescope was named in honor of Lyman Spitzer. He was one of the 20th century's great scientists. This is important becasue this telescope is used studies the early universe, young galaxies and forming stars, and is used to detect dust disks around stars, considered an important signpost of the making of planets. -
Rosetta comet mission
The Philae comet-lander has found traces of organic molecules on the surface of the comet 67P. The probe found that the surface was much harder than thought. Rosetta will continue orbiting the comet to receive any signals from Philae, if it were to wake up from hibernation. This is MAJOR important. We now know what the actual surface of a comet is kinda like.
