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Space Discoveries

By EB22208

  • Galileo created his first telescope

    Galileo created his first telescope
    This accomplished people now being able to look into the sky and looking at space. This helped Galileo discover the rings of Saturn and different moons.
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    Discoveries in space

  • Isaac Newton created his laws of physics

    Isaac Newton created his laws of physics
    The first law is that an object either remains at rest or continues to move at a constant rate unless it is acted upon by a force.
    The second law is that force equals mass times acceleration.
    The third law is that when a body puts a force on another body the body goes in the opposite direction.
    This accomplished many new ideas in science.

  • First photograph of the moon was taken

    First photograph of the moon was taken
    This photograph was taken by ranger 7 a spacecraft and this accomplished a lot because they then knew what the moon looked like up close and its texture.

  • First animals in space (Fruit Flies)

    First animals in space (Fruit Flies)
    The flies were launched in a nazi V-2 rocket and were captured by a parachute. This accomplished that animals can be in space.

  • First dog in space (Laika)

    First dog in space (Laika)
    Laila was launched in Sputnik 2 and died a few hours later. Soviet leaders thought he was going to last a long time in orbit but unfortunately he did not.

  • First firing of a rocket in earth orbit

    First firing of a rocket in earth orbit
    This rocket was known as Luna 1

  • First photograph of earth in orbit

    First photograph of earth in orbit
    This photograph is known as the "blue marble" and was taken by Apollo 17 crew members as they were leaving earths orbit and heading to the moon.

  • First human in space

    First human in space
    The first human in space was Yuri Gagarin. He was a soviet pilot and completed earths orbit.

  • First close up photograph of another planet (Mars)

    First close up photograph of another planet (Mars)
    This picture was taken by a Viking 1 lander shortly after it touched down onto mars.

  • First human on the moon

    First human on the moon
    The first person on the moon was Neil Armstrong and that was when he was with Apollo 11.

  • The international space station was built

    The international space station was built
    16 countries were involved in this project. This started when Zarya the space module was launched into the earths orbit.

  • NASA launched a rover named curiosity

    NASA launched a rover named curiosity
    Curiosity was launched to explore gale crater on mars. Curiosity is also apart of the mars mission.

  • NASAs Kepler identified 5,000 new planets and is still going

    NASAs Kepler identified 5,000 new planets and is still going
    Kepler was launched to find earth-sized planets orbiting other stars. Kepler has discovered 5,000 planets so far and it keeps finding more! Kepler was named after Johannes Kepler.

  • First food grown and eaten in space (lettuce)

    First food grown and eaten in space (lettuce)
    They grew red lettuce. The lettuce was made in a machine called veg-01 and it grew for 15 months. They used red, blue, green led lights.

  • Astronauts return from earth after 340 day space mission

    Astronauts return from earth after 340 day space mission
    This was the longest recorded time in space for ISS members.