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First Patented Telescope
First to hold a patent for the telescope was Hans Lippershey -
First Telescopic Space Observation
Galileo was the first to use the telescope design to observe the Moon and the Milky Way -
Isaac Newton Invented the Reflecting Telescope
Newton suggested that using mirrors would yield better enhancement results than optic lenses -
Yerkes Observatory
Yerkes Observatory held the largest refracting telescope of the time in Williams Bay, WI -
WWI (Start)
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NACA
the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) was established -
Mount Wilson Observatory
Mount Wilson Observatory housed the Hooker Telescope on the Los Angeles hills of California. The Hooker became the new largest telescope in the world, manned by Edwin Hubble, who could see past the Milky Way to the Andromeda Nebula -
Langley Research Center
The Langley Research Center (LaRC), formerly known as the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, was the first of three main research facilities that studied space travel -
WWI (End)
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WWII (Start)
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The Manhattan Project
America attempts to build the first atomic weapon -
USA Enters The War
The United States entered WWII after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor -
Atom Bombs
the first atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima, and the second on Nagasaki and officiated Japan's surrender -
WWII (End)
Japan formerly surrenders -
Sputnik
the Russians launched the first orbiting satellite into space -
Explorer I
the US launches their first satellite into orbit -
NASA
NASA takes over NACA, ending its 43-year run -
Tsar Bomb
Tested in Northern Russia, the shock wave traveled as far as Norway and Finland. Three times larger than Hiroshima -
First Man in Space
Russia's Yuri Gagarin was the first man to orbit Earth (108 mins) -
Second Man In Space
the United State's Alan Shepard was launched into space, but did not orbit -
US Orbit
John Glen of the USA orbits the Earth -
Kennedy Assassinated
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Man On The Moon
Neil Armstrong became the first man on the moon -
Launching of Skylab
the US launched its first space station -
Launching of the Hubble Telescope
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End of the 2nd Millennium