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liquid fuel rocket
Robert Gaddard, the father of the modern rocketry, invented the liquid fuel rocket -
Sputnik and Explorer
The space age began on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union lounched Sputnik -
Explorer 1.
the United State lounch his first satellite named Explorer 1. -
Yuri Gagarin
On April 12, 1961 Yuri Ggarin became the first person to travel in space. -
John Glenn
John Glenn became the first American to orbit the earth. -
Valentina Tereshkova
In 1963, Valentina Tereshkova the pilot of Vostok 6, became the first woman to fly in space -
Voskhod
In 1964 the Sovietic accomplished another first by launching three cosmonauts aboard a single spacecraft -
Gemenin
America respond to the Voskhod whit the Gemenin program -
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 On july 20, 1969 as the apollo columbia orbited the moon -
salyut
in 1971 the UUSR launched salyut -
lm challenger
on december, 16 1072 the last astronauts to visit the moon boarded the lm challenger and took off from the moons surface. -
skylab
the United State launched its first space station. -
space shuttle
On april, 1981 the United States launched the space shuttle -
the international space station
in 1984 president Ronald Reagan called on the united states to contruct a new station by 1990 -
Mir
the Soviet Union launched the space station Mir
