TimeLine Assigemnt on Space Exploration

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  • Regulate watse

    Philadelphia committee led by Benjamin Franklin attempts to regulate waste disposal and water pollution.

  • published of walden

    Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden

  • ecology us coined

    The term ecology is coined in German as Oekologie by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel

  • acid rain is coined

    The term acid rain is coined by Robert Angus Smith in the book Air and Rain

  • smog is coined

    The term smog is coined by Henry Antoine Des Voeux in a London meeting to express concern over air pollution

  • National park are created

    US Congress created the National Park Service

  • First Satellite

    First Satellite
    artificial satellite, Sputnik I is Launched into space by the Soviet Union

  • First man in Space

    First man in Space
    Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin Orbited Earth in 108 minutes

  • American's space objective

    American's space objective
    President Kennedy says that the well get on the moon and back

  • Silent spring is published

    Rachel Carson publishes Silent Spring

  • First American to orbit Earth

    First American to orbit Earth
    John Glenn completes three orbits around Earth

  • Frist space walk

    Frist space walk
    Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov does the first space walk

  • Earthrise

    The Apollo 8 picture of Earthrise

  • First manned spacecraft to orbit moon

    First manned spacecraft to orbit moon
    Apollo 8 spacecraft orbits the moon for the first time

  • Man walks on the moon

    Man walks on the moon
    Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin walk on the moon

  • First Earth day

    Earth Day – April 22., millions of people gather in the United States for the first Earth Day organized by Gaylord Nelson, former senator of Wisconsin, and Denis Hayes, Harvard graduate student. US Environmental Protection Agency established

  • orbiting laboratory, launched.

    orbiting laboratory, launched.
    Skylab I is launched in orbits around Earth

  • First untethered Spacewalk

    First untethered Spacewalk
    Astronaut Bruce McCandless performs man's first untethered spacewalk

  • montreal protocol

    Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete the ozone layer entered into force

  • kyoto protocol

    The Kyoto Protocol was negotiated in Kyoto, Japan in December. Countries that ratify this protocol commit to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases

  • first space rocket to dock at the international space station

    first space rocket to dock at the international space station
    Discovery becomes first shuttle to dock with the international space station,

  • rejected kyoto portiocal

    U.S. rejects the Kyoto Protocol