Space History 1609 to Present Day

By Bh20048
  • First Telescope

    Galileo created the first telescope to make far away objects look nearer and larger through the two lenses.
  • Kepler's Laws of Planetary

    Kepler designed the First and Second law of planetary motion in Germany
  • Reflecting Telescope

    Reflecting Telescope
    In England, Newton created the first reflecting telescope.
  • Halley's Comet

    In England, Halley is estimated to be back in 1778
  • Radio Telescope

    Radio Telescope
    First Radio telescope created by Grote Reber in the USA.
  • First U.S Satellite in Space

    First U.S  Satellite in Space
    The first USA EXPLORER 1 launched in the United States made it successly made it to space
  • First American in Space

    Alan Shephard was the first man in space.
  • Apollo 11 mission

    Apollo 11 mission
    Apollo 11 launched by the U.S NASA sent Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldren to the moon
  • Skylab

    Three crews were sent to Skylab in its first year in orbit. It was used for studying the effects of staying in space, including the sun. Skylab renters in Earth's astmospehere in 1979.
  • Project MIR

    Americans and Russians created a spaceshuttle together that was launched into space with astronaut, they survived for many months.
  • USA Hubble Space Telescope

    Hubble Space Telescope was launched and orbited through space from the space craft DISCOVERY.
  • Space Shuttle Endeavor

    The Space Shuttle Endeavor was the shuttle that was servicing the Hobble Space Telescope
  • Galileo Probe

    Galileo Probe
    On Jupiter, the Galileo Probe began transimtting data.
  • NASA SPACESHIP CRASHES INTO A COMET

    A comet half the size of Manhattan collided into a American NASA spaceship, leading it to new discoverys of a brilliant cosmic smash up.
  • Kepler's spacecraft

    Kepler's spacecraft
    American's NASA space craft Kepler was launched, it's job is to look for planets outside our solar system.