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Important Dates in Space Exploration

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  • Philadelphia Water Comittee

    Philadelphia Water Comittee

    Philadelphia committee led by Benjamin Franklin attempts to regulate waste disposal and water pollution.
  • Walden

    Walden

    Henry David Thoreau published Walden.
  • Ecology

    Ecology

    The term ecology is coined in German as Oekologie by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
  • Acid Rain

    Acid Rain

    The term acid rain is coined by Robert Angus Smith in the book Air and Rain
  • Smog

    Smog

    The term smog is coined by Henry Antoine Des Voeux in a London meeting to express concern over air pollution
  • National Park Service

    National Park Service

    US Congress created the National Park Service
  • Explorer 6

    Explorer 6

    First photograph of Earth taken from the orbit
  • OSO-1

    OSO-1

    First orbital solar observatory
  • Silent Spring

    Silent Spring

    Rachel Carson published Silent Spring
  • Apollo 8

    Apollo 8

    First piloted orbit around the moon.
  • Earthrise

    Earthrise

    The Apollo 8 picture of Earthrise
  • Apollo 11

    Apollo 11

    First human on the moon.
  • Earth Day

    Earth Day

    First Earth Day – April 22. Millions of people gather in the United States for the first Earth Day. US Environmental Protection Agency established
  • Mariner 10

    Mariner 10

    First photograph of Venus from Space
  • Voyager 1

    Voyager 1

    First photograph of the entire solar system.
  • Ozone Layer

    Ozone Layer

    Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete the ozone layer entered into force
  • NEAR shoemaker

    NEAR shoemaker

    First landing on an asteroid.
  • Stardust

    Stardust

    First sample return from a comet.
  • Kepler Mission

    Kepler Mission

    First space telescope designated to search for Earth-like exoplanets
  • MESSENGER

    MESSENGER

    First orbit of Mercury