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Space Exploration Firsts

By Cs20430

  • Galileo-Telescope-Italy

    Galileo-Telescope-Italy
    Galileo made the first telescope using two lenses, it was a refractor telescope.

  • Sir Issac Newton-Telescope-England

    Sir Issac Newton-Telescope-England
    Sir Issac Newton made the first working reflector telescope using curved mirrors.

  • John William Oraper-Photo-USA

    John William Oraper-Photo-USA
    Leaped took the first clear telescopic photograph of the moon.

  • Robert H. Goddard-Rocket-USA

    Goddard launched the first liquid fueled rocket.

  • V2-Fruit Flies-USA

    V2-Fruit Flies-USA
    First animals in space were fruit flies in 1947.

  • Sputnik-Soviet Union

    Sputnik was the first artificial satellite launched into orbit.

  • John Green-NASA-USA

    Green was the first American astronaut to be sent into orbit (around earth.)

  • Alexi Lenov-Soviet Union

    First man to walk in space.

  • Mariner 4-NASA

    Mariner 4-NASA
    The Mariner 4 got the first pictures of Mars surface.

  • Apollo 11-Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin-USA

    Apollo 11-Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin-USA
    They were the first astronauts to step foot on the moon.

  • Voyager 2-NASA

    Reached Saturn and began taking pictures.

  • Voyager 2-NASA

    Voyager 2-NASA
    Completes the first and only flyby of Uranus.

  • Stardust-NASA

    Returned to earth with the first dust ever collected from a comet.

  • Dawn-NASA

    First man made spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.

  • Dawn-NASA

    Dawn-NASA
    Successfully orbited the dward planet Ceres.