history of spacecraft

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  • idea for rocket to moon

    Robert Goddard establishes idea to rocket to moon.
    He expiriments withr eaction propulsion in a vacuum.

  • Fist liquid fuel rocket

    Robert Godard lanches first liquid rocket.

  • First succesful launch of V-2.

    Von Braun successfuly launcched V-2. It
    traveled 118 miles.

  • Sputnik I

    Sputnik took 98 minutes to orbit around earh.
    it weighed 184 pounds and was the size of a basketball.

  • Sputnik II

    Carried a dog, Laika, around earth in an orbit.

  • USA launches first satelite

    Its name was Explorer 1, and it carried an expeiriment
    designed by James A.Van Allen. It documents the existence of radiation zones encircling Earth within the planet’s magnetic field.

  • luna 3 probe flies by moon

    Soviet Union's luna 3 probe flies past moon and takes the first pictures of its far side.

  • first man in space

    cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, in Vostok I, becomes first person in space. he completes one orbit around earth. the spacecraft contains radios, instrumentation, life-support equipment, and an ejection seat.

  • Apollo 8 flight to the Moon views Earth from lunar orbit.

    Humans first escape Earth’s gravity on the Apollo 8 flight to the Moon and view Earth from lunar orbit. . As their ship travels outward, the crew focuses a portable television camera on Earth and for the first time humanity sees its home from afar, a tiny "blue marble" hanging in the blackness of space. When they arrive at the Moon on Christmas Eve, the crew sends back more images of the planet.

  • first person on moon

    neil armstrong the first person to step on the moon. they leave behind scientific instruments, an American flag, and other mementos, including a plaque bearing the inscription: "Here Men From Planet Earth First Set Foot Upon the Moon.

  • NASA launches two Mars space probes

    NASA launches two Mars space probes, Viking 1 on August 20 and Viking 2 on November 9, each consisting of an orbiter and a lander. The first probe lands on July 20, 1976, the second one on September 3.

  • Voyager I and Voyager 2 are launched

    Voyager I and Voyager 2 are launched on trajectories that take them to Jupiter and Saturn. They find 22 new satellites and discover that Jupiter has rings and that Saturn's rings contain spokes and braided structures; and send back images of active volcanism on Jupiter's moon lo.

  • Hubble Space Telescope

    The Hubble Space Telescope goes into orbit on April 25, deployed by the crew of the Space Shuttle Discovery. it is a space-based observatory. Stabilized in all three axes and equipped with special grapple fixtures and 76 handholds, the space telescope is intended to be regularly serviced by shuttle crews over the span of its 15-year design life.

  • International Space Station

    The first two modules of the International Space Station are joined together in orbit on December 5 by astronauts from the Space Shuttle Endeavour. In a series of spacewalks, astronauts connect cables between the two modules

  • citations

    "Spacecraft Timeline - Greatest Engineering Achievements of the Twentieth Century." Spacecraft Timeline - Greatest Engineering Achievements of the Twentieth Century. N.p., 2012. Web. 27 Sept. 2012. http://www.greatachievements.org/?id=3642.