Space Timeline By Silvia123123 610 BCE Anaximander’s Model 400 BCE Aristotle’s Model of the Universe 150 Ptolemy proposed ‘epicycles’ to explain planetary motion 1543 Copernicus’ Heliocentric Model 1608 Invention of Telescope 1609 Kepler develops his laws of planetary motion Jan 7, 1610 Galileo is first to use telescope to look at the night sky; discovery of 4 moons of Jupiter 1687 Newton’s Laws of Universal Gravitation Mar 13, 1781 Herschel is first to discover a planet using a telescope (Uranus) Oct 24, 1946 First photograph of Earth from space Feb 20, 1947 First animals in space (fruit flies) Jun 14, 1949 First mammal in space Oct 4, 1957 First spaceflight in history Oct 4, 1957 First space research flight Oct 4, 1957 First artificial satellite Dec 3, 1957 First mammal in orbit Aug 19, 1960 First plants and animals to return alive from Earth orbit Apr 12, 1961 First plants and animals to return alive from Earth orbit Jul 14, 1965 First photographs of another planet from space Jul 16, 1969 First human flight to another celestial body: the moon Jul 21, 1969 First human on another celestial body: the moon Apr 19, 1971 First Space Station Sep 5, 1977 Voyager 1 launched Jun 13, 1983 First spacecraft to go beyond all planets in the solar system Apr 24, 1990 Hubble Space Telescope launched Nov 20, 1998 International Space Station launched 2012 First images from James Webb Space Telescope released Aug 25, 2012 Voyager 1 leaves solar system Jul 8, 2015 First food grown in space (lettuce) Apr 19, 2019 First photograph of a black hole Dec 25, 2021 James Webb Space Telescope launched