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Space Travel

By bo5185
  • Period: to

    1609-1957

  • 1610

    The first spotting of the moon through a telescope by Galileo Galilei.

  • 1926

    Robert H. Goddard launches first liquid fueled rockets.

  • 1946

    1946
    First research flight launched by the U.S. captured by the V-2 space rocket.

  • 1957

    1957
    First animal launched into orbit, dog named Laika launched by USSR and did not return alive.

  • 1957

    1957
    First ballistic missile produced by the USSR.
  • Period: to

    1958-1980

  • March 17, 1958

    March 17, 1958
    First human spaceflight (Yuri Gagarin)/
    First orbital flight of a manned vehicle

  • March 17, 1958

    First solar powered sattilite.

  • March 18, 1965

    March 18, 1965
    First extra-vehicular activity (space walk)

  • July 20, 1969

    July 20, 1969
    First humans on the Moon
    First space launch from another celestial body

  • December 2, 1971

    First soft Mars landing
    First signals from Mars surface
  • Period: to

    1981 - present day

  • 12 April 1981

    12 April 1981
    First Reusable manned spacecraft (orbital)

  • 7 February 1984

    7 February 1984
    First untethered spacewalk, Bruce McCandless II

  • 19 February 1986

    19 February 1986
    First consistently inhabited long-term research space station

  • 20 November 1998

    First multinational space station,
    Largest man-made object built in space to date

  • 10 August 2015

    10 August 2015
    Lettuce was the first food eaten that was grown in space