Space exploration

By holly.wasmundt

  • The First Telescope

    The First Telescope
    In 1608, Galileo Galilei built the "first telescope" starting the begging of space exploration but some people believe that it wasn't him who built the first telescope and that he just took the idea from someone else. This telescope was a refracting telescope.

  • First observation

    Galileo Galilei takes the first observation of the night sky and discovers Jupiters moons, lunar craters, in the phases of Venus

  • Photo of space

    The first clear telescopic photograph of the moon

  • V-2

    V-2
    Herman Oberth helped design the V-2 rocket which was the first human – made object to travel into space

  • Research flight

    The first space research flight

  • Sputnik

    The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite

  • Sputnik

    Sputnik
    The Soviets launched Sputnik 2, which carried the first animal to go into orbit, a dog name Laika

  • Earth

    Earth
    The first photograph of Earth in orbit from Explorer 6

  • Plants and animals

    The first plants and animals to return alive from Earth orbit

  • Human-Piloted

    Human-Piloted
    The first human-piloted space flight by Alan Shepard and first human space mission the landed with the pilot still in it, technically completing the first complete space flight.

  • Neil Armstrong

    Neil Armstrong
    Neil Armstrong becomes the first man on the moon

  • Asteroid belt

    The first mission to enter the asteroid belt and leave the inner Solar System

  • Mars

    The first photos and samples from Mars

  • Mars

    The first photos and samples from Mars

  • Solar System

    The first photograph of the whole Solar System

  • Hubble

    Hubble
    THe Hubble Space Telescope was put into orbit and has been there for 25 years to this day

  • Space Station

    The first multinational space station and the largest man-made object built in space to date

  • Kepler Mission

    Kepler Mission is launched. The first space telescope designated to search for Earth-like exoplanets

  • Lettuce

    Lettuce
    Lettuce became the first food eaten and grown in space

  • 340 days in Space

    340 days in Space
    Astronaut Scott Kelly and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko return to Earth after their 340-day space mission. It was the longest recorded time in space for ISS crew members.