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Isaac Newton
Newton comes out with his Laws of Motion -
Exploring Rockets
They where studying rockets using Newton's 3rd Law of Motion. -
Reaction device
It is very serious work that has to be published -
Goddard's rocket patents
U.S. rocket scientist Robert H. Goddard receives two landmar. -
Goddard's Famous Publication
Robert Goddard publishes A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes. -
Soviet Rocket Society Established
The Soviet Union establishes the Society for Studies of Interplanetary Travel. -
Goddard launches a rocket
Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket -
Group for the Study of Reactive Motion
(GIRD) launches the first Soviet liquid-fueled rocket -
First vehicle to cross the Kármán lin
First vehicle to cross the Kármán lin -
First space research flight
(cosmic radiation experiments) -
Luna 1,
First man-made satellite to orbit the sun, is launched by Russia -
Sputnik 1 is Launched by Russians
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Vostok 6
carries Soviet Cosmonaut Valentia Tereshkova, the first woman in space and orbits the Earth 48 times. -
Gemini 7
A is launched carrying Frank Borman and James A. Lovell, Jr., making 206 orbits around Earth and proving a trip to the Moon possible. -
U.S. Lunar Orbiter 1 enters moon
and takes the first picture of the Earth from the distance of the moon.
