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Looking at the moon through a telescope
Galileo Galilei was the first person to see the moon through a telescope. -
First liquid fuel rocket launched
Robert H. Goddard launched the first fuel rocket -
launches first personal rocket with students
Hermann Oberth launches first personal rocket with students -
First military rocket
German liquid fuel rocket for military use -
Soviet Union first rocket
They launched their first rocket by their own. -
Animals launched into space
The first animates launched into space -
First research flight by the US
US research with a v2 rocket -
First satellite launched by us
Explorer 1 was the first satellite launched by us and was a success. -
The Soviet Union launched the first satellite into space, Sputnik 1.
Sputnik one was a success and it started the space race. -
The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 2.
The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 2 with a dog named Laika. And Laika did not survive the trip. -
First ballistic missle
The first ballistic middle made by the Soviet Union -
Sputnik 5 was launched into space
Sputnik was launched into space with two dogs named Belka and Strelaka -
First person in space
Yuri was the person in space. For Russia -
First American in space.
First American launched into space -
First American in orbit
Astronaut John Glenn became the first American in orbit. -
Fist woman in space
Valenina Nikolayeva Tereshkova became the first woman in space -
Zond 5
The Soviet spacecraft Zond 5 was launched and later became the first spacecraft to orbit the moon and return to Earth. -
Armstrong on the moon
Armstrong was the first man in the moon and back. -
The Soviet Union space station
The Soviet space station Salyut 1 was launched. -
Voyager 1 & 2 reaching Jupiter and her moons.
Voyagers 1 and 2 began transmitting images of Jupiter and her moons. -
Columbia first shuttle launched into space
Columbia became the first Space Shuttle to be launched. -
Reaching Saturn
Voyager 2 reached Saturn and began transmitting images. -
Second space shuttle
The second Space Shuttle, Challenger, was launched -
First African American in space
Guion Bluford became the first African-American in space. -
Third space shuttle
August 30 - The third Space Shuttle, Discovery, was launched. -
Kathryn Sullivan
Kathryn Sullivan became the first American woman to walk in space. -
Challenger explosion
The Space Shuttle Challenger exploded seconds after liftoff -
Stardusts return
NASA spacecraft Stardust returned safely to Earth in a desert near Salt Lake City with the first dust ever collected from a comet. -
Kelpler, NASA spacecraft
The NASA spacecraft Kepler was launched. Its mission is to search for planets outside our solar system, in a distant area of the Milky Way. -
NASA launched a luner probe
NASA launched the unmanned LADEE spacecraft from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. It was the U.S. space agency's third lunar probe in five years.
