Timeline of Space Exploration

By lk20416

  • Spotting the Moon for the First Time

    The first spotting of the moon through a telescope by Galileo Galilei.

  • First Reflection Telescope

    Issac Newton built the first successful reflecting telescope.

  • Finding Uranus

    William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus, using a mirror telescope he had constructed.

  • Discovery of Asteroids

    Guiseppe Piazzi discovered Ceres, the first know asteroid.

  • First liquid fueled rocket

    The first liquid fueled rockets are lunched by Robert H. Goddard.

  • V-2

    V-2
    The Germans made the V-2 missle to bomb Belgium, England, and France. When it was launched it was the first human made object that went into space.

  • The First Animal Sent into Space by the U.S.

    The firat animal the U.S. sent into space was a fruit fly.

  • First ballistic missle

    The first ballistic missle is produced by the USSR.

  • Sputnik 1

    Sputnik 1
    Sputnik was the first satellite put into space. The lunch of Sputnik 1 started the space race.

  • First animal in space

    First animal in space
    A dog named Laika was the first animals to go to space.

  • Explorer 1

    Explore 1 was the first satellite launched into space by the U.S.

  • NASA

    NASA
    NASA was created after the Cold War.

  • Sputnik 5

    Sputnik 5 was lunched with two dogs, Strelka and Belka, they were the first living beings to survive a trip to space.

  • First man in space

    First man in space
    Yuri Gagarin was the first man in space.

  • First American in space

    Alan Shepard became the first American in space.

  • First Woman in Space

    Valentina Tereshkova was it the first woman to fly into space. She was selected out of more than 400 people.

  • First Man on the Moon

    First Man on the Moon
    Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin (Americans) were the first men to walk on the moon.

  • Luna 16

    The Soviet lunched a space craft called Luna 16. It was the first automatic spacecraft to return soil samples of the moon.

  • Salyut 1

    The Soviet Union put the first space station into orbit, it had no crew when it was sent to space.

  • Skylab

    Skylab
    The U.S. launched its first space station, Skylab.

  • Columbia

    Columbia
    The USA lunches the first reusable space ship.

  • First American woman in Space

    Sally Ride was the first American woman in space on Challenger’s second mission.

  • Challenger

    Right after Challenger took off it started to break apart and exploded, all seven crew members died including the first teacher going to be sent into space.

  • Hubble

    Hubble
    Hubble was and is the first space telescope. It has taken and discovered many picture in space.

  • Magellan spacecraft

    The Magellan spacecraft began mapping out the surface of Venus using radar equipment.

  • First African-American Woman in space

    Mae Jemison was the first African-American woman in space.

  • International Space Station

    International Space Station
    The International Space Station is a project between NASA, RKA, JAXA, CSA, and ESA.

  • Spitzer Space Telescope

    NASA launched the largest-diameter infrared telescope ever in space, called the Spitzer Space Telescope.

  • Cassini spacecraft sends back pictures

    The Cassini spacecraft sent back pictures of Saturn’s rings.

  • Space Shuttle Endeavour

    Space Shuttle Endeavour and a crew of seven when into space with teacher Barbara Morgan aboard. Barbara was the first teacher in space since the Challenger disaster in 1986.

  • Starting to Explore Mars

    President Barack Obama signed a legislation focusing NASA exploring Mars and the asteroids.

  • Rover Landed on Mars

    NASA's Curiosity rover successfully landed on Mars. It has new instruments and experiments.