History of space flight

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  • liquid-fuel rocket

    liquid-fuel rocket
    robert goddard invented the liquid-fuel rocket

  • sputnik

    sputnik
    the space age began when the soviet union launched sputnik

  • yuri gargarin

    yuri gargarin
    yuri gargarin became the first person to travel in space when he made a single orbit around the earth in his vostok 1 spacecraft

  • john glenn

    john glenn
    john glenn became the first american to orbit the earth

  • valentina tereshkova

    valentina tereshkova
    velentina tereshkova became the first woman to fly in space

  • NASA

    NASA
    NASA conducted five more successs ful apollo moon landings

  • apollo CSM

    apollo CSM
    1969 as the apollo CSM columbia orbited the moon.

  • sylut

    sylut
    in 1971 the USSER launched was used only brielly;five more salyut space stations were successfully operated

  • skylab

    skylab
    the united states launched its first space station,skylab

  • space shuttle

    space shuttle
    the united states launched the space shuttle

  • mir

    mir
    the soviet union launched the space station mir.

  • tragically challenger

    tragically challenger was destroyed by an accident shortly after launch in 1986

  • international space station (iss)

    international space station (iss)
    over fifteen nations were working together to build what is now called the international smile station.

  • columbia broke up

    columbia broke up after reentering earth's atmosphere in 2003

  • orbiters

    the last 3 orbiters continued to be used until their retirement in 2011