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Sir Isaac Newton published a book called "Philosophae Naturalis Principia Mathematica" about his three laws of gravity and his law of universal gravitation.
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*No date was given, just the year. I had to put a date in so the day and month are untrue* British Mathematician, William Moore, released a book about the first exposition of rocket mechanics based on Newton's third law of motion.
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**No date was given except for the year. The day and month are incorrect but I had to put one in.** Konstantin Tsiolkovsky published his book that showed space exploration could be theoretically possible.
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Robert Goddard launches the first rocket fueled by liquid.
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Germany finally successfully launched V - 2. It was the first man made object to achieve suborbital space flight.
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The U.S. military achieved their first high altitude flight by rebuilding the German V - 2.
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The first animals launched into space were fruit flies.
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Sputnik1 (created by USSR) was the first man - made object to orbit Earth. It remained in orbit until January 14, 1958
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NASA is founded, replacing National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics which exsisted before it.
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Luna1 (launched by USSR) was the first man - made satellite to orbit the Moon.
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On September 12th, Russia launched Lunar2. On September 13th it impacted with the Moon.
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Tiros1 was the first successfu weather satellite launched by the USA. The day on which this happened was nto provided but I have to put one in. The day is incorrect.
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Vostok1 (launched by USSR) carried Yuri A. Gargarin to space, making him the first man in space.
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On May 5th, Alan Shepard was the first American in space.
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On March 18th, Alexei A. Leonov (from USSR) was the first person to walk in space.
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On July 20th, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first men on the moon.
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Mariner9 was the first planet to orbit another planet, Mars.
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Columbia was the first Space Shuttle launched from USA.
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Challenger was the second Space Shuttle launched.
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Discovery was the thrid US Space Shuttle to be launched.
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Atlantis was the USA's fourth Space Shuttle to be launched.
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On January 28th, Challenger exploded shortly after it was launched. All seven crew members died.
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In April of 1990, Discovery was launched into space, deploying the Edwin P. Hubble Space telescope into Earth's orbit.
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Endeavour took its first mission in 1992.
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Eileen M. Collins was the first female shuttle pilot.
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When Columbia was returnig to the Kennedy Space Center, a small piece of insulating foam broke off the fuel tank. The piece smashed into one wing of the Shuttle and damaged a tile. The tiles protected the Shuttle from heat and when the Columbia returned to Earth, it could not withstand the temperature and it broke apart. All seven crew members died.
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Atlantis was the last space shuttle launched before NASA retired the space shuttles and sent the remaining three to museums across the country.
