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Timeline assignment space exploration

By Matt_Tonkli26
  • First observation of the Night sky

    First observation of the Night sky

    Galileo Galilei discovered jupiters moons, phases of venus and lunar craters

  • Philadelphia committee led by Benjamin Franklin attempts to regulate waste disposal and water pollution

  • Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden

  • The term ecology is coined in German as Oekologie by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel

  • The term acid rain is coined by Robert Angus Smith in the book Air and Rain

  • The term smog is coined by Henry Antoine Des Voeux in a London meeting to express concern over air pollution

  • US Congress created the National Park Service

  • First Artificial Satellite

    First Artificial Satellite

    Sputnik 1 had the first mad made signals from space and first artificial satellite
  • First Human to orbit earth

    First Human to orbit earth

    Soviet Yuri gargarian orbited the earth

  • Rachel Carson publishes Silent Spring

  • The Apollo 8 picture of Earthrise

  • First human on the moon

    First human on the moon

    Neil Armstrong was the first human to step on the moon after taking the Apollo 11

  • First Earth Day – April 22. Millions of people gather in the United States for the first Earth Day. US Environmental Protection Agency established

  • First Reusable spacecraft

    First Reusable spacecraft

    Spaceshuttle

  • Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete the ozone layer entered into force

  • Space telescope

    Space telescope

    Hubble space telescope launched and has provided some of the most high quality pictures of space we all see.
  • Exoplanet Discovered

    Exoplanet Discovered

    First confirmed observation of an Exoplanet

  • The Kyoto Protocol was negotiated in Kyoto, Japan in December. Countries commit to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide

  • First Rover on another planet

    First Rover on another planet

    Mars rover
  • International Space station

    International Space station

    ISS Is finished and completed

  • U.S. rejects the Kyoto Protocol

  • First man made object in interstellar space

    First man made object in interstellar space

    Voyager 1 enters interstellar space

  • U.S. announces it will cease participation in the Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation

  • U.S. announces it will rejoin the Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation