-
Period: to
Early Space Exploration
-
Galileo Galilei Observes the Night Sky
The first telescope observation of the night sky leads to discoveries including lunar craters and the phases of Venus. -
Isaac Newton Publishes the Philosophæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
-
The First Telescopic Photograph of The Moon
-
Goddard Launches First Liquid-fueled Rocket.
-
Hermann Oberth Launches His First Liquid-fueled Rocket.
-
First Soviet Rocket is Launched.
-
First Rocket to Enter Outer Space.
The V-2 military program launch a rocket that crosses the Kármán Line into Outer Space. -
First U.S-designed Rocket to Reach the Edge of Space.
-
The First Artificial Satellite Receives Signals from Space.
-
The Dog Laika Launched Into Space.
Laika was the first animal to be sent into space. -
Period: to
The Space Race
-
The First Picture of Earth from Orbit is Taken.
-
First Animals to Return from Orbit.
-
The First Human Spaceflight is launched by the Soviet Union.
-
First Close Up Photos of Another Planet.
The first pictures of another planet are taken. The planet is Mars. -
The First Docking Between Two Spacecrafts
-
First Automated Docking
This was the first of many crewless dockings such as the rover on Mars that is controlled by NASA. -
The First Human Landing On The Moon
-
First Lunar Rover
-
The First Space Station To Begin Orbitting In Space
-
The First Pictures Of Another Planet Are Taken
During the first orbit around Venus, NASA managed to take photos from the planet's surface. -
Period: to
Space Exploration Today
-
STS-1 Is The First Reusable Spacecraft
-
The First Long-Term Research Space Station Is Launched By The USSR
-
The First Photograph Of The Entire Solar System Is Taken
-
The First Operational Rover Landing On Another Planet (Mars)
-
The First Landing On An Asteroid
-
The First Sample Returned From Comet
-
First Sample Returned From Asteroid
-
First Manmade Probe In Interstellar Space
-
Final Original Flyby Of Planets Recognized In 1981 (Pluto)
-
First Space-Grown Food Is Eaten
