Space exploration time line

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.

18. 1976 • Viking 1 was the first successful space mission to mars. It took pictures of the planets surface.

19. 1979 • Skylab The USA’s first space station receives pictures from the sun showing the corona.

20. 1981 • Columbia was NASA’s reusable space shuttle. It completed 27 missions before it exploded.

21. 1983 • NASA’s second space shuttle orbiter to be placed in orbit. It took a photo of Earth showing Australia.

22. 1986 • Mir is a Russian space station that was a lab in space. I did reteach on human biology.

23. 1990 • NASA launched a space telescope called the hubble space telescope. It is considered a valuable research tool.

24. 1995 • NASA’s Galileo was a unmanned spacecraft to study Jupiter. It also did the first asteroid fly by.

25. 1996 • The American spacecraft Pathfinder landed on mars and released the mars rover named sojourner.

26. 1998 • The international space station is a research facility in space. It can be seen by the naked eye and is by far the largest cross-sectional of any other space station. It is set to be completed later this year

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