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2016 BCE
In space for almost a year
Astronaut Scott Kelly and Cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko return to Earth after their 340-day space mission, longest recorded time in space for ISS crew members. -
2014 BCE
Space Probes
First man-made probe to make a planned and soft landing on a comet -
2004 BCE
Solar wind
First sample of solar wind returned beyond lunar orbit -
1998 BCE
public Space station
First multinational space station,
Largest man-made object built in space to date -
1982 BCE
First soil samples from another planet
the very first Venus soil samples and sound recording of a whole other world -
1972 BCE
Leaving our solar system
the very first mission to enter the asteroid belt and leave inner Solar System -
1963 BCE
First Female Astronaut
This was the very first woman to go to space, Valentina Tereshkova, she currently 79. -
1959 BCE
Earth
this is when the First photograph of Earth was taken from orbit -
1813 BCE
Motion of Rockets
First exposition of the rocket equation based on Newton's third law of motion: Treatise on the Motion of Rockets -
1610 BCE
The first Telescopic discovory
Theses were the discovery's of Jupiter's moons, lunar craters and the phases of Venus excised.