Space Timeline

By Hoover13

  • First telescope

    The first telescope was made by Galileo Galilei.
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    1609-1957

  • First US rocket to reach the edge of space

    The first US rocket to reach the edge of space was launched

  • First nuclear powerplant

    President Eisenhower had set up the country's first full-scale nuclear powerplant.

  • First man made object to orbit the earth

    First man made object to orbit the earth
    The first man made object was launched by the U.S.S.R and remained in orbit until January 4th 1958.

  • First dog in space

    First dog in space
    The first dog was launched into space, it was also launched by the U.S.S.R. It remained in orbit until April 13th 1958
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    1958-1980

  • First US satilite in orbit

    The first US satilite to be put into orbit was launched, and it had discovered earth's radiation belt

  • First manmade object to hit the moon

    The soviets had sent Luna 12 which had made inpact a day later and noted as the first manmade object to ever make contact with the moon

  • First spacecraft to reach venus

    The soviets had launched Soviet Venus 3 which had become the first object to make contact with venus

  • First object to orbit the moon

    Soviet luna 10 was the first object to ever orbit the full moon

  • First man on the moon

    Apollo 11 was safley landed on the moon where Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin had become the first men to walk on the moon
  • Period: to

    1981-2013

  • First spacecraft beyond the orbit of Neptune

    The first spacecraft to pass the orbit of Neptune. Launched by the US

  • First women in space

    Sally K. Ride was the first US women to travel through space on Challenger mission STS-7

  • First operational rover on another planet

    The US has the first operational rover to be on another planet. (mars)

  • Launch of the double probe Cassini/Huygens

    The double probe had been launched aiming at Saturn. It is the most complex unmanned planetary object ever attemped. It cost more that $2.5 billion and took 17 nations, and hundreds of scientists from Euerope and America. It was able to send pictures of Saturn's rings and its 18 moons.

  • Water found on the moon

    NASA's LCROSS found water in a cold permently dark crater at the south pole of the moon