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The first telescope was built.
Galileo built the first telescope. -
The first successful liquid-fueled rocket was luanched.
Robert Goddard launced the first liquid-fueled rocket. -
Pluto was discovered
The dwarf planet Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in Flagstaff Arizona. -
The first animal sent into space.
Fruit flies were the first animals to be launched into space on to the V2 rocket. -
The first monkey to be launched into space.
Albert 1 was the first monkey to be launched into space. -
The first satellite launched into space.
The Soviet Union launched the first satellite called Sputnik into space. -
The first dog launched into space.
Laika was the first dog launched in space but the first animal to go into orbit he was on the Soviet Sputnik 2 spacecraft. But Laika did not make it back alive. -
The first living thing to make it into space and back alive.
The soviet craft Sputnik five was launched with two dogs named Strelka and Belka and they came back alive. -
The first human in space
A russian cosmonaut named Yuri Gagarih baecame the first human in space. -
The first lady to go up into space.
Valentina Nikolayeva Tereshkova was the first lady to be in space. -
The first spacecraft to land on the moon.
The Russian Spacecraft called Luna 9 was the first spacecraft to land on the moon. -
The first men to walk on the moon.
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men on the moon. -
US launched its first space station.
The US launched ou first space station calld Skylab. -
The first female pilot.
Eileen Collins became the first female shuttle pilot. -
The Oldest man in space
John Glenn became the oldest man in space. -
The US NEAR spacecraft
The US NEAR started to transmit images of the streroid Eros. -
NEAR lands on Eros
The NEAR spacecraft landed on the Surface of Eros. -
Investigating The space shuttle Columbia
When investigating they found a panel that superheated air almost seeped through a breach in space shuttle Columbia's left wing and maybe its wheel compartment during the re-entery of Eaths atmosphere, which caused seven astronauts to die. -
NASA launched the largest-diameter telescope.
NASA launched the largest-diameter infared telescope ever in space, called the Spitzer space telescope. -
The first dust to ever be collested from a comet.
NASA's spacecraft Stardust returned to Earth in a desert near Salt Lake City with the first dust ever to be collected from a comet. -
The spacecraft Kepler was launched.
The NASA's spacecraft Kepler was launched. Its mission was to search for planets outside our solar system, in a distant area of the Milky Way. -
The space shuttle Atlantis became the last American space shuttle.
The space shuttle Atlantis became the last Amerisan space shuttle to be launched into space.
