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Space exploration time line

By : Sid Sandefur. Space exploration time line. 1900. The Russian scientist named Edurdovich Tsiokovsky formulated the mathematics needed of modern astronauts. He showed space travel was possible by the means of rockets. 1914.

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Space exploration time line

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  1. By : Sid Sandefur Space exploration time line

  2. 1900 • The Russian scientist named EdurdovichTsiokovsky formulated the mathematics needed of modern astronauts. He showed space travel was possible by the means of rockets.

  3. 1914 • An American scientist Robert H. Goddard patented the first rocket and is credited with creating and building the first liquid fuel rocket.

  4. 1926 • Goddard (still American) launches the first rocket proving his ideas on space travel and missiles.

  5. 1930 • V-2 spacecraft was made and was used as a missile by Nazi Germany in WW II. Then used by the USA and the Soviet Union in their space programs.

  6. 1944 • V-2 spacecraft left Earths atmosphere from Nazi Germany going four times the speed of sound. The first strike with the weapon was on Paris.

  7. 1954 • American Viking rocket broke the record for highest altitude reached which was 159 miles above the earth. The design was taken from the Germen rocket the V-2.

  8. 1957 • The sputnik program is the commonly known name of various robotic spacecraft missions launched by the soviet union. The first of them sputnik 1 was first man made object to orbit earth.

  9. 1961 • On April 12 1961 soviet Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space. Launching to orbit in the vostok 3KA-3.

  10. 1961 • The Redstone rocket was the first large American ballistic missile it was launched in 1961.

  11. 1967 • The lunar orbiter program was a series of five unarmed lunar orbiter missions launched by the USA. The pictures helped NASA choose where to land Apollo 11

  12. 1969 • Apollo 11 was the first space mission to land a man on the moon. Neal Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. Then a famous quote was invented, “one small step for man one large step for man kind.

  13. 1971 • Salyut 1 was the first space station of any kind launched by the USSR. When the crew was returning a pressure-equalization vale opened prematurely killing all three.

  14. 1971 • Mariner 9 was a NASA space orbiter that was the first probe to orbit another planet. It took pictures of mars.

  15. 1972 • NASA’s Apollo 16 was the tenth manned mission in the Apollo program. It brought back 94.7 kilograms of lunar samples.

  16. 1973 • USA’s first space station called skylab was a lab in space. It was launched by a modified Saturn V rocket.

  17. 1973 • The first US space station launched was called sky lab. It did many experiments in space.

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