Hayden's Space Timeline

By tsondelski

  • First spotting of moon through telescope

    First spotting of moon through telescope
    by Galileo Galei

  • Robert H. Goddard

    Robert H. Goddard
    First Liquid fuelled rocket

  • Hermann Oberth

    Launches first personal rocket with students

  • First German Military

    liquid fueled rockets developed

  • Soviet Union launches rocket

    First of their own

  • First rocket

    launched into Earth's orbit by USSR

  • First detection of solar wind

    by USSR

  • First photo graph from Earth's orbit

    First photo graph from Earth's orbit
    By US, NASA

  • First plants and animals

    First plants and animals
    Returned from Earth's orbit

  • First human space flight

    First human space flight
    First human manned flight

  • First reusable manned spacecraft

    by US

  • First spacecraft beyond orbit of Neptune

    First spacecraft beyond orbit of Neptune
    by US NASA

  • First photograph of whole solar system

    by US NASA

  • First polar orbit around sun

    By US NASA

  • longest duration in orbit

    longest duration in orbit
    By Larry Polyakov 437.7 days (from Russia)