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Timeline . By: Ellie Mohon and Katie Dusek . 1900 . Tsiolkovsky first started writing fiction books in Russia that led him to think about testing rockets. 1914.

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  1. Timeline By: Ellie Mohon and Katie Dusek

  2. 1900 • Tsiolkovsky first started writing fiction books in Russia that led him to think about testing rockets.

  3. 1914 • In 1914, Goddard received two U.S. patents. One was for a rocket using liquid fuel. The other was for a 2or 3stage rocket using solid fuel.

  4. 1926 • Goddard made a working rocket using liquid fuel.

  5. 1930 • In Russia one of the Germans clubs made V-2 and the Germans used it as a weapon.

  6. 1944 • Rockets were being used during W.W. 2 and then went over 107 miles above Earth and left Earth’s atmosphere.

  7. 1954 • On June 19 the spacecraft went in orbit in Mars.

  8. 1957 • October 4, 1957 - Sputnik 1, the first man-made object to orbit the Earth, is launched by the U.S.S.R., and remains in orbit until January 4, 1958.November 3, 1957 - Sputnik 2, carrying the dog Laika for 7 days in orbit, is launched by the U.S.S.R., and remains in orbit until April 13, 1958.

  9. 1961 • April 12, 1961 - Vostok 1 is launched by the U.S.S.R., carrying Cosmonaut Yuri A. Gargarin, the first man in space. He orbits the Earth once.May 5, 1961 - Mercury Freedom 7 carries Alan B. Shepard,Jr., the first U.S. Astronaut into space, in a suborbital flight.August 6, 1961 - Vostok 2 is launched by the U.S.S.R., carrying Cosmonaut Gherman Titov, the first day-long Soviet space flight.

  10. 1967 • April 23, 1967 - Soviet Soyuz 1 is launched, carrying Vladimir M. Komarov. On April 24 it crashed, killing Komarov, the first spaceflight fatality.October 18, 1967 - Venera 4 sends a descent capsule into the Venusian atmosphere, returning data about its composition.

  11. 1971 • April 19, 1971 - Salyut 1 space station is launched by the U.S.S.R. It remains in orbit until May 28, 1973.May 30, 1971 - The United States launches Mariner 9, which becomes the first spacecraft to survey Mars from orbit.June 6, 1971 - Soyuz 11 carried Cosmonauts G.T. Dobrovolsky, V.N. Volkov, and V.I. Patsayev to Salyut 1, the first manned occupancy of an orbital station. However, on June 29, the Cosmonauts died upon Soyuz 11's reentry.July 30, 1971 - Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin drive the first moon rover. The next year, Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt drives a simn Mariner 9 (launched May 30, 1971) is the first spacecraft to orbit another planet, Mars. Over the next year, it maps 100 percent of the Martian surfaceilar rover.November 13, 1971 - America

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  13. 1972 • March 2, 1972 - Pioneer 10 is launched on an Atlas/Centaur/TE364-4 towards Jupiter by the U.S., designed to familiarize alien life with humans. It returns the first close-up images of Jupiter in 1973.July 15, 1972 - Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to travel through the asteroid belt.December, 1972 - Scientists designate Cignus X-1 as the first probable black hole.

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