Timeline of space Exploration

By Cc20200
  • First telescope

    First telescope

    Galileo made one of the first telescopes.
  • First picture of the moon

    First picture of the moon

    First clear picture of the moon by john William Daper
  • Liquid fueled rockets

    Liquid fueled rockets

    Robert H. Goddard Goddard files for and is subsequently awarded U.S. patents on multistage and liquid-fueled rockets

  • V-2 rockets

    Work begins on the Aggregate series of rockets which leads to the V-2 rocket. Wernher von Braun

  • Kármán line

    First vehicle to cross the Kármán line (100 km/~62 mi above the Earth's surface) and thereby enter outer space[1] V-2 rocket, military program

  • return alive

    first plants and animals to return alive from earths orbit. sputnik 5

  • first humans

    First human-piloted space flight–(Alan Shepard)
    First human-crewed suborbital flight
    First human space mission that landed with pilot still in spacecraft, thus technically completing the first complete human spaceflight[2]

  • flyby

    first flyby of venus no data returned

  • mars

    First close-up photographs of another planet mars

  • Venus

    First impact into another planet (Venus)

  • Spacecraft

    First Reusable manned spacecraft (orbit) by STS-1

  • microwave

    First orbital cosmic microwave observatory by COBE

  • Solar System

    First photograph of the whole Solar System by Voyager 1

  • Sun

    First polar orbit around the Sun by Ulysses

  • Comet

    First sample return from comet by Stardust