Space Exploration Timeline

By Samantha_78

  • 1609-1957

    1609-1957
    1608- The first telescope invented by Hans Lippershey
    1610- The first spotting of the moon through a telescope by Galileo Galilei
    1926- Robert H. Goddard launches the first liquid fueled rocket
    1933- Soviet Union launches their first own Rocket
    1947- launched first animal (fruit flies)into space by U.S.A

  • 1958-1981

    1958-1981
    1959- First rocket launched into Earth's orbit by the USSR
    1961- First human space flight and humanned orbital flight
    1962- Astronaut John Glenn became the first American in orbit.
    1963-USSR sent a very first woman in space
    1969- U.S (Apollo ||) sent the very first human on the moon
    1971- USSR first space station
    1981- First reusable spacecraft by the U.S

  • 1981

    1981
    1990- First photograph of the whole solar system
    2000- First orbit of an asteroid by US NASA
    2001- First Landing of an Astroid
    2010- First Sample of and Asteroid Brought Back to Earth by Japan
    2012- NASA Rover Successfully lands on mars to seek out life- Clues by US NASA