Space Exploration Timeline

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  • First telescope

    First telescope

    Telescope
    1/1/1608
    Galileo
    First person to use the telescope
    In the country of Italy

  • Reflecting Telescope

    Reflecting telescope
    Sir Isaac Newton
    1/1/1670
    Made the first reflecting telescope
    In the country of England

  • Rocket Mechanics

    1/1/1813
    First Exposition of Rocket Mechanics
    The British mathematician William Moore
    Motion of Rockets. This work features the first exposition of rocket mechanics based on Newton's third law of motion.

  • Exploration of Cosmic Space

    1/1/1903
    Exploration of Cosmic Space
    Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
    Russian rocket scientist publishes The Exploration of Cosmic Space by Means of Reaction Devices.
  • First Suborbital Flight

    First Suborbital Flight

    October 3, 1942
    First Suborbital Flight
    After two previous failures, Germany successfully launches their V-2 rocket. It is the first man-made object to achieve sub-orbital spaceflight.
  • Sputnik 1

    Sputnik 1

    Sputnik 1
    October 4, 1957
    First artificial satellite to orbit, as part of the Space Race
    USSR launched it, the Soviet's made it
    Country of Russia, unassisted
  • Luna 1

    Luna 1

    January 2, 1959 -
    Luna 1, first man-made satellite to orbit the moon,
    is launched by the U.S.S.R.

  • Tiros 1

    April 1, 1960
    Tiros 1, the first successful weather satellite,
    is launched by the U.S.

  • Vostok

    April 12, 1961
    Vostok 1 is launched by the U.S.S.R.,
    Cosmonaut Yuri A. Gargarin, the first man in space
    He orbits the Earth once.

  • Apollo 11

    Apollo 11
    July 20, 1969
    NASA
    U.S.A
    First rocket to make it to the moon
    Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins
  • The Sakigake probe

    The Sakigake probe

    January 8, 1985
    The Sakigake probe
    launched by Japan's Institute of Space and Aeronautical Science,
    the first interplanetary probe as it rendezvous with Halley's Comet

  • Space Shuttle Endeavour

    December 2, 1993
    Space Shuttle Endeavour
    launches on STS-61, making the first on-orbit service of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST).
  • Hubble telescope

    Hubble telescope

    Hubble telescope
    1/1/1994
    First telescope to go in space
    NASA
    In the U.S.A

  • Female shuttle pilot

    February 2, 1995
    Eileen Collins
    became the first female Shuttle pilot.
    U.S.

  • Dawn spacecraft

    July 16, 2011
    NASA's Dawn spacecraft
    became the first man made craft to orbit an asteroid
    U.S.