Space Exploration Timeline Honors Science Period 7

By eo20022

  • First telescpoic observation of the night sky

    Jupiter's moons, lunar craters and the phases of Venus were discovered. Key person involved: Galileo Galilei

  • First exposition of the rocket equation based on Newton's third law of motion

    Treatise on the Motion of Rockets. Key person involved: William Moore
  • First clear telescopic photograph of another world

    First clear telescopic photograph of another world

    The moon was in the photograph. Key person involved: John William Draper
  • Goddard launches first liquid-fueled rocket

    Goddard launches first liquid-fueled rocket

    Key person involved: Robert H. Goddard

  • First vehicle to cross the Kármán Line

    First vehicle to cross the Kármán Line, and thereby enter outer space.
    Key people involved: V-2 rocket, military program

  • First space research flight

    (Cosmic radiation experiments) Key person involved: captured and improved V-2 rocket

  • First U.S. designed rocket to reach the edge of space

    (49 miles) Key person involved: V-2 rocket

  • First pictures from Earth

    (From 65 miles) Key person involved: WAC Coporal
  • First animal in space

    First animal in space

    (Fruit flies) Key person involved: V-2 rocket

  • First animal in orbit

    The dog Laika. Key person involved: Sputnik 2
  • First photograph of Earth from orbit

    First photograph of Earth from orbit

    Key person involved: Explorer 6

  • First plants and animals to return alive from Earth orbit

    Key person involved: Sputnik 5
  • First woman in space

    First woman in space

    Key people involved: Valentina Tereshkova, Vostok 6

  • First Mars flyby

    (Closest approach 9,846) Key person involved: Mariner 4

  • First impact into another planet

    (Venus) Key person involved: Venera 3

  • First automatic sample return

    (From the moon) Key person involved: Luna 16
  • First space station

    First space station

    Key person involved: Salyut 1

  • First mission to enter asteroid belt

    (And leave inner Solar system) Key person involved: Pioneer 10

  • First photos and soil samples from the surface of Mars

    Key person involved: Viking Lander

  • First real time remotely operated ultraviolet orbital observatory

    Key person involved: International Ultraviolet Explorer

  • First reusable manned spacecraft

    Key person involved: STS-1

  • First astrometric satellite

    Key person involved: Hipparcos

  • First Neptune flyby

    (Closest approach at 29,240 km) Key person involved: Voyager 2

  • First photograph of the whole solar system

    Key person involved: Voyager 1
  • First polar orbit around the Sun

    First polar orbit around the Sun

    Key person involved: Ulysses

  • First landing on an asteroid

    Key person involved: NEAR Shoemaker

  • First orbiting of an asteroid

    Key person involved: NEAR Shoemaker
  • First sample return from comet

    First sample return from comet

    Key person involved: Stardust

  • First orbit of dwarf planet

    (Ceres) Key person involved: Dawn
  • First food eaten that was grown in space

    First food eaten that was grown in space

    (Lettuce) Key person involved: Scott Kelly