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First to hold a patent for the telescope was Hans Lippershey
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Galileo was the first to use the telescope design to observe the Moon and the Milky Way
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Newton suggested that using mirrors would yield better enhancement results than optic lenses
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Yerkes Observatory held the largest refracting telescope of the time in Williams Bay, WI
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the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) was established
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Mount Wilson Observatory housed the Hooker Telescope on the Los Angeles hills of California. The Hooker became the new largest telescope in the world, manned by Edwin Hubble, who could see past the Milky Way to the Andromeda Nebula
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The Langley Research Center (LaRC), formerly known as the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, was the first of three main research facilities that studied space travel
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America attempts to build the first atomic weapon
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The United States entered WWII after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor
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the first atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima, and the second on Nagasaki and officiated Japan's surrender
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Japan formerly surrenders
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the Russians launched the first orbiting satellite into space
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the US launches their first satellite into orbit
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NASA takes over NACA, ending its 43-year run
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Tested in Northern Russia, the shock wave traveled as far as Norway and Finland. Three times larger than Hiroshima
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Russia's Yuri Gagarin was the first man to orbit Earth (108 mins)
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the United State's Alan Shepard was launched into space, but did not orbit
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John Glen of the USA orbits the Earth
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Neil Armstrong became the first man on the moon
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the US launched its first space station
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