The Space Advancements 1609-Present Day By Alex.Bliven 1609 1609 The beginning 1610 The first spotting of the moon through a telescope by Galileo Galilei. . 1926 Robert H. Goddard launches first liquid fueled rockets 1929 Hermann Oberth launches first personal rocket with students 1931 First German military liquid fueled rockets developed 1957 First artificial satellite put into space that brings back signals to earth launched by the USSR 1959 First rocket launched into earths orbit by the USSR 1959 First photograph of the earth from the earth's orbit by U.S. NASA 1961 First human spaceflight and complete orbital flight 1966 First artificial satellite around another world (moon) purposed by USSR 1969 First human on moon by the U.S. successful! 1981 First reusable manned spacecraft by U.S. 1983 First spacecraft beyond the orbit of Neptune by U.S. NASA 1990 First photograph of the whole solar system by U.S. NASA 1990 The Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit by NASA U.S. 2012 NASA rover successfully lands on mars to seek out life-clues by U.S. NASA 2017 Present Day Findings and advancements up to this point.