Tsiolkovsky Timeline Power point

1. Tsiolkovsky Timeline Power point By: Elizabeth Sanders

2. 1900 • Russian rocket scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky published Treatise on the Motion of Rockets. This work features the first exposition of rocket mechanics based on Newton’s third law of motion.

3. 1914 • U.S. rocket scientist Robert H. Goddard received two landmark patents for rockets. The first described a multi-stage rocket and the second described a rocket fueled with gasoline and liquid nitrous oxide. These two patents would become major milestones in the history of rocketry.

4. 1926 • March 16, 1926 • U.S. rocket scientist Robert H. Goddard launched the first liquid fueled rocket from his Aunt Effie’s farm in Auburn, MA. The 4-foot high rocket dubbed “Nell” reached an altitude of 41 feet and a speed of about 60 miles per hour. The flight lasted only 2 ½ seconds, but paved the way for the U.S. rocket program.

5. 1930 • German Wernher Von Braun and his colleagues produced a number of experimental designs, the most famous of which was the A-4 rocket, which has gained distinction in history under another name -- the vengeance weapon number two -- V-2 for short. The V-2 was the first successful, long range ballistic missile, and von Braun is credited as its principal developer.

6. 1944 • September 8,1944 • First German V-2 fired in combat exploded in Paris; the second struck London a few hours later.

7. 1954 • May 24, 1954 • NRL Martin Viking #11 set an altitude record of 158 miles ( 834,240 ft) and attained a speed of 4,300 mph in a flight from White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico.

8. 1957 • The USSR beat the United States into space by launchingSputnik 1. At 184 pounds, it was the world's first artificial satellite. Sputnik transmitted radio signals back to Earth for only a short time, but it was a major accomplishment.

9. 1961

10. 1961 • April 12, First Man in SpaceRussian Cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin became the first human to go into space. The Vostok 1 spacecraft made one complete orbit around Earth in 108 minutes, and reached altitudes of 112 to 203 miles. The flight lasted only one hour and 48 minutes.

11. 1967

12. 1969 • July 20, 1969First Manned Moon LandingApollo 11 makes the first successful soft landing on the Moon. Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, Jr. become the first people to set foot on another world.

13. 1971 • April 19, 1971 • The Salyut 1 station is launched by the U.S.S.R. It remained in orbit until May 28, 1973.

14. 1971 • November 13, 1971 • USA- American probe Mariner 9 took photos on Mars and was the first spacecraft to orbit another planet.

15. 1972

16. 1973 • May 14, 1973 • USA launches Skylab the first US space station. It is there for scientific experiments and was occupied by 3 crews.

17. 1973 • May 25, 1973 • America launches first crew aboard the Skylab. The crew fixes damage by Skylab station during it’s launch.

18. 1976 • July 20, 1976First Surface Images of MarsThe first pictures of the surface of Mars and martian soil are sent back to Earth by Viking 1, the first U.S. spacecraft to successfully land a on another planet.

19. 1979

20. 1981 • April 12,1981 • The first manned mission from the Space Transportation System, Colombia is launched. It was the first re-usable shuttle.

21. 1983 • April 4, 1983Maiden Voyage of ChallengerAmerica's second Space Shuttle, Challenger, embarks on its first mission into space. The mission includes America's first space walk in nine years.

22. 1986 • February 20, 1986 • The first phase of the Mir Space Station has been successfully launched and put into Earth’s orbit.

23. 1990 • April 24, 1990 • Space Shuttle Discovery lifted off for mission STS-31 carrying the Edwin P. Hubble Telescope with it.