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Galileo's first telescope
In 1609 Galileo built his first telescope, it only magnified 8x, but that was a huge deal for the time period. -
Issac Newton and his laws of physics
Newton's first law, which is usually called inertia, is that an object at rest, stays in rest, while an object in motion stays in motion with the same speed and direction, unless and unbalances force comes in contact. -
Rocket patent
The first rocket patent was made in 1914 by Robert H. Goddard and it took about a year to patent it. -
Dogs in space
The USSR sent dogs in space to see if it was possible for humans to survive a flight. The pay sent 57 dogs into space and most of them lived and even went on a second mission. -
First artificial satellite
The Soviate Union launched it on October 4 1957, it was 53cm in diameter and had four external radio antennas to broadcast radio pulses. -
First Human in space
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was from the Soviate union and was the first human to be launch into outer space. -
First hominid in space
On January 31st 1961, Ham the astrochimp was launched into space for a NASA mission. He did survive the mission. -
First spacewalk
A cosmonaut from the Soviate Union,named Alexei Leonuv, preformed the first space walk during a one day mission. -
First spacecraft to map the moon
Luna 9 was the first probe to land softly onto the moons surface, it was created my the Soviate Union. -
First human to walk on the moon
Apollo 11 was the first manned lunar landing, it was done my the USA. The mission had three astronauts: Neil Armstrong, the mission commander. Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, the lunar module pilot. Last but not least, Michael Collins, the command module pilot. -
First reusable spacecraft
NASA built the worlds first reusable spacecraft. The spacecraft took off like art space shuttle, but returned to earth as a glider. -
The international space station was built
The assembling of the ISS hade been going on since the early 90s, but in 1998, Zaria, the first module was launched. -
First landing on an asteroid
After a five year long journey, the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touched down on the asteroid named Eros. -
Mars rover
The Mars rover is an automated vehicle that propels its self around Mars. It is helpful to us because it can get photos that us humans have not yet been able to get -
First foods grown in space
The first food harvested in space was red lettuce. It took abou 15 months to grow and they used a system of red, blue and green LED lights.
