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First Rocket
Robert Goddard liquid-fueled rocket rose 12 m into the air. -
First U.S satellite
in the same year NASA was founded, Explorer 1 was launched. It orbited Earth 58,000 times before burning up in Earth`s atomsphere in 1970. -
Congress found NASA
NASA oversees all U.S missions, including sapce telescopes. -
apollo moon walk
series of space missions designed to send people to the moon. -
First planetary probe
Mariner 2 traveled to Venus and collected data for 3 months. the craft now orbits the sun. -
Mariner 2 sent to venus
the first spacecraft to gather info from another planet was the flyby Mariner 2, sent to Venus -
first probe to outer solar system
After flying past Jupiter, pioneer 10 is still traveling onward, someday to exit the solar system. -
space shuttle piggyback on rockets
reusable spaceraft that transport people and materials to and formm space -
international system of space
earth orbiting satellite.