space timeline

By jonahjsimpson
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    space timeline

  • First telescope

    the first telescope was inevented in 1608
  • Galileo Galilei

    Galileo Galilei

    using his new telescope,he discovers the four largest moons of Jupiter and craters
  • refracting telescope

    refracting telescope

    this telescope holds the largest glass lens possible before the telescope will begin to buckle under its own weight this was the biggest telescope at the time,ones like this are nolonger used because telescopes today a far more advanced
  • first satellite

    first satellite

    suptnik 1 was the first satellite made by the soviet union
  • first mammal in space

    first mammal in space

    lakia was the first dog in space laika died, lakia helped them inprove safty in space travel
  • first living animals

    first living animals

    sputnik 5, Strelka and Belka. They became the first living beings to survive a trip into space
  • NASA

    NASA

    the National Aeronautics and Space Administration was formed as a company to fund space travel
  • first man in space

    first man in space

    Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space
  • first space walk

    first space walk

    ed white became the first american to space walk
  • first men on the moon

    first men on the moon

    neil armstong and "buzz" aldrin became the first men to walk on the moon
  • space station

    space station

    the U.S launched there first space station called skylab
  • space shuttle

    space shuttle

    the U.S launched there first space shuttle,Columbia
  • hubble telescope

    hubble telescope

    the HST was launched
  • Endeavor

    Endeavor

    the Endeavor takes off from its carryer

  • Galileo mission

    the space shuttle that ran the Galileo mission crashed into jupiter by design at 108,000mph
  • kepler

    kepler

    the kepler's misssion was to find planets, outside our solar system
  • Virgin Galactic

    Virgin Galactic

    Virgin Galactic will begin flights of SpaceShipTwo to sub-orbit.
  • mars lander

    mars lander

    next Mars lander, InSight, will launch to mars to study beneath the surface using a drill.
  • ISS

    ISS

    the ISS will be decommissioned and de-orbited at some point after 2020.
  • mars settlers

    mars settlers

    the first mars settlers will start colonising