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1200
Solid Fuel Rockets
Also called rocket motors had been used since the 1200 -
Robert Goddard
The father of modern rocketry invented the liquid fuel rocket -
Space age
Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1 -
United States
Responded with its first satellitewith the name of Explorer 1 -
Yuri Gagarin
Became the first person to travel in space -
Jonh Glenn
became the first American to orbit earth -
Valentina Tereshkova
the first woman to fly in space -
The Soviets
Launched three cosmonauts aboard single spacecraft -
Apollo CSM
As the Apollo CSM Columbia orbited the moon -
Salyut
was launched -
NASA
conducted five more successful apollo moon landings -
LM
The last astronauts to visit the moon boarded the LM -
Skylab
The U.S.A launched its first space station ,Skylab. -
1980s
A number of companies have designed their own rockets -
Space Shuttle
was launched -
Mir
The Soviet Union launched the space station Mir -
Challenger
was destroyed by an acciedent shortly after launched -
President Ronald Reagan
He called on the united states to construct a new space station -
ISS
15nd nations were working together to built ISS -
First module
that was launched in 1998 , and first ISS crew arrived in 2000 -
Mir
after fifteen years in space ,Mir finally entered the Eath atmosphere and burned up in 2001 -
Yang Liwei
orbited the earth 14 times in his Shenzhou 5 spacecraft -
Columbia
broke up after reetering the earth atmosphere -
President George W.Bush
announced that the USA would begin a new space exploration program that would send astronauts -
ISS
was schedule for completion in 2006, delays pushed this back to 2011
