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Italy
First Telescope -
USA
First parabolic mirror telescope built -
UK
First exposition of the rocket equation based on Newton's third law of motion: Treatise on the Motion of Rockets -
USA
Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket -
USA
First telescope to take pics of moon. -
Russia
First artificial satellite in space -
USA
First US satellite in space -
Russia
First probe to hit moon -
Russia
First human to orbit earth -
USA
First man on the moon -
USA
First reusable manned spacecraft. -
USSR and France
Ultraviolet orbital observatory -
USA
First Uranus flyby -
Russia
Radio orbital observatory. Largest space observatory ever launched. -
ESA
First manmade probe to land on a comet
