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Before 20th century
Creation of the first telescope and space observation -
First reflecting telescope
created by Isaac Newton (England) -
First telescopic photograph of the Moon
by researcher, John William Draper (United States) -
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20th century
First invention of space flight.
Start of the space race which involves Russia (URSS), United States, China, and Europe mainly. -
First observation of extrasolar planet (exoplanet)
Discovered by Adriaan van Maanen who is from the Netherlands -
The influencial papers of Goddard: "A method of reaching extreme altitude"
These papers were made by Robert H. Goddard who was a physicist and engineer that is credited for making the first fueled rocket. -
First liquid-fueled rocket launch
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First radio waves
The first detection of radio waves from the USA from a man who is named Karl Jansky -
First spaceflight in history
The first man-made object was launched by Germany which is named V-2 rocket -
First picture of Earth
The first picture of Earth was taken by the USA which is from the V-2 mission -
First animal in space
The first animal who went in space were fruit flies -
First two stage rocket launched
It was rocket made by USA that was named Bumper-5 -
First artificial satellite
The first artificial satellite was made by the USSR, the name of the mission and the satellite is Sputnik 1 -
First rocket to reach the Earth's escape velocity.
Luna 1 was a rocket made by the USSR and was the first to escape the Earth. -
First weather satellite
It's named Vangard 2 and it was created by the USA as the first weather satellite -
First human spaceflight
Yuri Gagarin is the first human to go to space with the mission Vostok 1 from the USSR -
The first human-piloted spaceflight
The first human-piloted spaceflight is from the mission Freedom 7 which is from the USA. The man that piloted the object was Alan Shepard. -
The first lunar spacecraft to be recovered successfully
It is from the mission Zond 5 by the USSR and it was apart of a mission to send animals and plants to space around the moon. -
The first steps on the moon
The first humans to reach the moon which is from the mission Apollo 11 and included Neil Armstrong. -
The first spacestation
The first spacestation was made by the USSR in the mission Salyut 1. -
The first multinational crewed mission
The Apollo-Soyuz mission was the first mission that included multiple nations which were the USA and the USSR -
First spacecraft to flyby a distant planet
Voyager 2 was the first to flyby Uranus. -
Creation of the ISS
It was made by multiple countries that were Russia, USA, Japan, Europe... -
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After 20th century
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First discovery of lunar water
It was discovered by India and it was in the form of ice -
First spacecraft to leave our solar system
Voyager 1 is the first object to go beyond the heliosphere (the border of our solar system) -
First food grown in space
It was grown by the USA and Japan -
First direct photograph of a black hole and its vicinity
The black hole was observed by a telescope which is named Event Horizon Telescope. -
Launch of the largest telescope to date
The space telescope which is launched by the USA and the Canada on the 25th December 2021 is named James Webb Space Telescope.