Space Exploration Timeline

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  • Galileo First Looking Through a Telescope

    Galileo was the first person to look through a telescope at space in 1610, and discovered objects in space that he had never seen before like moons and other objects in space.

  • Galileo Discovering Moons

    Galileo Discovering Moons
    Galileo was the first person to ever look at the moon through a telescope in 1610. He also discovered the four largest moons orbiting Jupiter. They were all later named after him as the Galilean moons.

  • Sir Isaac Newton's Telescope

    In 1670 Sir Isaac Newton built a telescope that used curved or concave mirrors. The type of telescope he made was a reflecting telescope

  • The First Fuel Rocket

    The First Fuel Rocket
    The first American Robert Goddard, to build a rocket that used fuel was launched in 1926.

  • Soviet Union Launches

    In 1933 Soviet Union launches first rocket of their own.

  • First Artificial Satellite

    The first artificial satellite was launched by the USSR on October 4, 1957.

  • First Person In Space

    First Person In Space
    On 1961 April 12 a Russian Cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin was the first person in space.

  • First To Orbit the Moon

    On December 21 of 1968 Apollo eight of NASA was the first group of astronauts to orbit the moon.

  • The First Astronauts on the Moon

    The First Astronauts on the Moon
    Apollo 11 successfully landed on the moon for the first time for NASA on July 20, 1969.The astronauts who walked on the moon were Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong

  • First Space Station

    First Space Station
    The first US space station was launched on on March,14 of 1973.

  • Hubble Telescope

    Hubble Telescope
    The Hubble space telescope started to begin operations in April 24, 1990. The Hubble space telescope has captured amazing and is named after Edwin Hubble in honor of the NASA astronomer.

  • The Surface of Venus

    The Surface of Venus
    On August 10, 1990 NASA's Magellan spacecraft began mapping the surface of Venus using radar equipment.

  • Stardust on a Comet

    On January 15, 2006 NASA spacecraft Stardust returned safely to Earth in a desert near Salt Lake City with the first dust ever collected from a comet.

  • Ice Chunks on Mars

    On May 25, 2008 NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander landed safely and began sending images home after a 10-month, 422 million-mile journey. Scientists later reported that the Phoenix had discovered chunks of ice.

  • The James Webb space telescope

    The James Webb space telescope
    The James Webb space telescope of NASA will be put out to perform operations to replace the old Hubble telescope in sometime around the year of 2014.