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1st Telescope
The first person to apply for a patent for a telescope was a Dutch eyeglass maker named Hans Lippershey. In 1608, Lippershey tried to lay claim on a device with three-times magnification. His telescope had a concave eyepiece aligned with a convex objective lens. -
The first spotting of the moon through a telescope
Galileo's account of his first astronomical observations using a telescope. He found that the surface of the Moon, like Earth, is rough and uneven, that the Milky Way and several nebulas are made up of numerous stars too faint to see individually with the naked eye, and most famously, that Jupiter has four large satellites. -
First liquid fuel rocket
The first flight of a liquid-propellant rocket took place on March 16, 1926 at Auburn, Massachusetts, when American professor Dr. Robert H. Goddard launched a vehicle using liquid oxygen and gasoline as propellants. -
first personal rocket launched with students
In the autumn of 1929, Oberth conducted a static firing of his first liquid-fueled rocket motor, which he named the Kegeldüse. The engine was built by Klaus Riedel in a workshop space provided by the Reich Institution of Chemical Technology, and although it lacked a cooling system, it did run briefly.[9] He was helped in this experiment by an 18-year-old student Wernher von Braun, who would later become a giant in both German and American rocket engineering from the 1940s onward. -
First German military liquid fueled rockets developed
Germany had started its rocket development plan in the 1930’s. Germany’s first liquid fuel rocket was fired in 1931 – the so-called Huckel-Winkler 1. -
First research flight launched by the U.S. captured by the V-2 space rocket
On October 24, 1946, not long after the end of World War II and years before the Sputnik satellite opened the space age, a group of soldiers and scientists in the New Mexico desert saw something new and wonderful—the first pictures of Earth as seen from space.The grainy, black-and-white photos were taken from an altitude of 65 miles by a 35-millimeter motion picture camera riding on a V-2 missile launched from the White Sands Missile Range. Snapping a new frame every second and a half. -
First animals launched into space (fruit flies) by the U.S.
The first animals sent into space were fruit flies aboard a U.S.-launched V-2 rocket on 20 February 1947 from White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. The purpose of the experiment was to explore the effects of radiation exposure at high altitudes. -
First ballistic missle produced by the USSR
The Soviet Union announces that it has successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of being fired “into any part of the world.” The announcement caused great concern in the United States, and started a national debate over the “missile gap” between America and Russia. -
Sputnik
History changed on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I. The world's first artificial satellite was about the size of a beach ball (58 cm.or 22.8 inches in diameter), weighed only 83.6 kg. or 183.9 pounds, and took about 98 minutes to orbit the Earth on its elliptical path. That launch ushered in new political, military, technological, and scientific developments. While the Sputnik launch was a single event, it marked the start of the space age and the U.S. -
First animal launched into orbit, dog named Laika launched by USSR and did not return alive
Little was known about the impact of spaceflight on living creatures at the time of Laika's mission, and the technology to de-orbit had not yet been developed. Scientist believed humans would be unable to survive the launch or the conditions of outer space, so engineers viewed flights by animals as a necessary precursor to human missions.The experiment was to prove that a living passenger could survive being launched into orbit and endure weightlessness. Laika died within hours of overheating. -
First detection of solar wind
In January 1959, the Soviet satellite Luna 1 first directly observed the solar wind and measured its strength.They were detected by hemispherical ion traps. The discovery, made by Konstantin Gringauz, was verified by Luna 2, Luna 3 and by the more distant measurements of Venera 1. Three years later its measurement was performed by Neugebauer and collaborators using the Mariner 2 spacecraft. -
First plants and animals to return to earth safely/alive from the Earth's orbit
The Soviets had been using dogs for experimental high-altitude flights long before Belka (Russian for “squirrel”) and Strelka (“Little Arrow”) lifted off from Baikonur on what would be a 16-orbit flight. Their safe return was by no means a certainty: Less than a month earlier, two other dogs were lost when the booster rocket meant to carry their Vostok spacecraft into orbit exploded on launch. -
Longest duration in the orbit of earth
Cosmonaut Gherman Titov was a month shy of his 26th birthday when he launched into orbit aboard the Soviet spacecraft Vostok 2 in August 1961. He was the second person to orbit the Earth, performing 17 loops around our planet during his 25-hour flight. -
First human spaceflight and humanned orbital flight
The first human spaceflight was launched by the Soviet Union on 12 April 1961 as a part of the Vostok program, with cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin aboard. Humans have been continually present in space for 14 years and 335 days on the International Space Station. -
First women in space by USSR
Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova is the first woman to have flown in space, having been selected from more than four hundred applicants and five finalists to pilot Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963. -
First sighting of mars and flyby by U.S. NASA
The spacecraft flew past Mars on July 14, 1965, collecting the first close-up photographs of another planet. The pictures, played back from a small tape recorder over a long period, showed lunar-type impact craters (just beginning to be photographed at close range from the Moon), some of them touched with frost in the chill Martian evening. -
First artificial satellite around another world (moon) purposed by USSR
The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It is one of the largest natural satellites in the Solar System, and, among planetary satellites, the largest relative to the size of the planet it orbits. On March 1 1966 we had the first artificial satellite to go around the moon. -
First man on the moon
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first humans on the Moon, Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, on July 20, 1969, at 20:18 UTC. Armstrong became the first to step onto the lunar surface six hours later on July 21 at 02:56 UTC. -
First space station in space
Salyut, Almaz, and Skylab (1971–1986)[edit] The first space station was Salyut 1, which was launched by the Soviet Union on April 19, 1971. -
First picture of Earth
1972 the crew of Apollo 17 took the first ‘Blue Marble’ image of the entire planet Earth as they traveled back from the Moon with the Sun behind them illuminating our world. -
First soft landing on Mars
The Viking landers were the first spacecraft to land on Mars in the 1970s. Viking 1 and Viking 2 each had both an orbiter and a lander. On July 20, 1976 the Viking 1 Lander separated from the Orbiter and touched down on the surface of Mars. -
First reusable manned spacecraft
The US space shuttle, first launched in 1981, was the world's first reusable spacecraft. NASA ran the programme of 135 manned missions. Mission control was located at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, while the shuttles themselves launched from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. -
First spacecraft beyond the orbit of Neptune
Pioneer 10, the first NASA mission to the outer planets, crossed the orbit of Neptune on June 13, 1983, marking a first for space travel.Launched on March 2, 1972, Pioneer 10 was not only the first spacecraft to cross Neptune's orbit on a course to leave our solar system, it was the first to use all-nuclear electrical power, the first to fly beyond Mars, the first to fly through the asteroid belt, and the first to fly close to Jupiter. -
First photograph of the whole solar system
February 14, 1990 from a distance of approximately 6 billion kilometers from Earth. It features individual frames of six planets and a partial background indicating their relative positions. The picture is a mosaic of 60 individual frames -
First polar orbit around the Sun
In 1994, Ulysses became the first probe to cross the southern polar region of the Sun. -
First orbit of an asteroid
Eros was one of the first asteroids visited by a spacecraft, the first one orbited, and the first one soft-landed on. NASA spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker entered orbit around Eros in 2000. -
First landing as a asteroid
Eros was one of the first asteroids visited by a spacecraft, the first one orbited, and the first one soft-landed on. NASA spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker entered orbit around Eros in 2000, and LANDED in 2001. -
Kepler Mission launched first space telescope designated for research of Earth's expoplanets
Kepler is a space observatory launched by NASA to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars. The spacecraft, named after the German Renaissance astronomer Johannes Kepler,was launched on March 7, 2009. -
First sample of an asteroid brought back to earth by Japan
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's from the country's Tanegashima Space Center, where the local time at liftoff was 1:22 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 3. If all goes well, the spacecraft should return samples of the asteroid 1999 JU3 to Earth in late 2020, -
NASA rover successfully lands on mars to seek out life-clues
The finding was another hint that Mars, the planet most like Earth in the solar system, was once suitable for microbial life.The rover has traveled around 5 miles since landing on Mars in August of 2012.It has been exploring an area where rocks have been found containing water-deposited sediments to learn if the life-friendly environments actually existed long enough for life to evolve. -
James webb
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), previously known as Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST), is a space observatory under construction and scheduled to launch in October 2018. The JWST will offer unprecedented resolution and sensitivity from long-wavelength visible to the mid-infrared, and is a successor instrument to the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope. The telescope features a segmented 6.5-meter (21 ft) diameter primary mirror and will be located near the Earth–Su
