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The first spotting of the moon through a telescope by Galileo Galilei.
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Robert H. Goddard launched first liquid fueled rocket
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First German military liquid fueled rockers developed.
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Soviet launches first rocket of there own.
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The first research flight launched by the United States captured by the V-2 space rocket.
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First animals launched into outer space, fruit flies, by the United States.
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The first artificial satellite was put into space that brought back signals to Earth launched by the USSR.
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The first dog launched into orbit was named Laika launched by the USSR but didn't return back to Earth alive.
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The first ballistic missle produced by the USSR
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Sputnik was the first satellite sent by Soviet Union to obit earth. When Sputnik was send out into space the Space Race began. The Space Race was between the Soviet Union and the United States. Sputnik helped scientist learn more about earth's atmosphere.
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Explorer 1 was the first American satellites to orbit earth. It was sent up after the Soviet Union sent up Sputnik 1 and Sputnik 2.
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The National Areonautics and Space Administration was formed by the United States during the space race. It controls all missions and launches into space.
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The discover 14 was the first satellite into space by coming off a moving spacecraft in orbit and then reattached in mid-air. This satellite was launched by the United States.
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Yuri Gagarin was the first Russian man in space. He became Soviet hero and this advanced the Russians in the space race. He was on the Vostok 1 space craft.
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After the Russians sent a man into space the United States sent Alan Shepard. He was on board small mercury capsule named Freedom 7.
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Ed White was the first American to complete a spacewalk. He was sent on the mission Gemini 4. He was in space for 23 minutes and was over Hawaii and the Gulf of Mexico.
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Luna 10 was the first space craft to orbit the moon. It's orbit around the moon took 3 hours. After it went into orbit, the satellite separted but stayed close.
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Soyuz 1 was a manned spacecraft, it was the first of the Soyuz series. On the return back to Earth it had technical problems and crashed, causing the rider to die. It was the first fatal space flight.
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Apollo 11 was the space shuttle that took men to the moon and got them home safely. This was a great achievement because this is the first thing in the space race that the United States had done before the Soviets.
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Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon on the Apollo 11.
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The first manned mission of the Space Transportation System is launched. The mission was a mission the test out the spacecraft's systems.
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The space shuttle Columbia started their fifth mission, the first operational space shuttle mission. The STS-5 launched with a four member crew on a five day mission.
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The space shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after the liftoff, resulting in the loss of the spacecraft and the seven member crew. The accident was especially tragic because of Christa McAuliffe. She was the first civilian to fly into space. She was a part of the Teacher in Space program, the shuttle exploded because of a faulty O-ring seal in one of god soild rocket boosters.
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The first module of the Mir space station was successfully launched and placed into Earth's orbit. It stayed in orbit until 2001 when it came crashing down into the Pacific Ocean.
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Space shuttle Discovery lifts off for mission STS-31, carrying the Edwin P. Hubble Space Telescope. The first time Hubble brought back picture they were fuzzy images. There would be a mission to come to go solve the problem. After the problem is fix Hubble will be the most powerful space telescope created.
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The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous spacecraft successfully landed on the surface of the asteroid Eros. The spacecraft wasn't designed to land on an asteroid. The landing was a last minute idea. It was decided because the spacecraft was running out of fuel and was nearing the end of its mission.
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The space shuttle Columbia broke apart in the atmosphere over Texas while returning to the Kentucky space center. The seven member crew was lost in the accident. A piece of foam from the fuel tank broke off during the launch.
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After getting through the atmosphere of Mars and then bouncing to a stop using giant air bags. The rover landed in a location known as Gusev crater. The Spirit rover was only meant to last three months.
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The sister rover to Spirit, Opportunity landed on the opposite side of Mars in a location known as Meridiani Planum. Many new discoveries include layered rock formations the could have been formed in water and a tornado-like dust devils moving across the surface.
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The space shuttle Atlantis became the last American space shuttle to be launched into space. A four member crew took much-needed supplies to the International Space Station. Atlantis landed at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and officially ended the 30-year space shuttle program.
