THE GREAT SPACE RACE TIMELINE

19001900 a scientist named Tsiolkovsky started

testing rockets he didn't construct a single rocket but designed hundreds his achievements went unrecognized

1981Space Shuttle The US space shuttle, first launched in 1981, was the world's first reusable space craft. Of its three components - the orbiter space plane

1957Sputnik was the name given to a series of Soviet satellites sent into earth's orbit. .... It was the first man-made object to orbit the Earth. ... to US soviet relations when t became the first successful man made earth satellite?

1967

The Lunar Orbiter Photo Gallery can be accessed in the following ways: ... These photographs were taken in 1966–1967 to survey possible lunar landing sites

1914A scientist named Goddard patented first rocket he had alredy recieved ... 1926 Goddard launches first successful rocket it went 49ft. in the air and it was

1971

Salyut 1 was the first space station put into orbit. The Soviets launched it from Baikonur Cosmodrome on April 19, 1971 using a three-stage Proton launch

1990The Hubble Space Telescope's launch in 1990 sped humanity to one of its greatest advances in that journey. Hubble is a telescope that orbits Earth

1961

In January 1958, a modified Redstone rocket lifted the first American satellite into orbit just 3 months after the von Braun team received the go-ahead.

1973Feb 24, 2011 ... 24, hours before shuttle Discovery launches on its final mission. ... The cargo ship hooked up with the space station less than six hours ... crews and cargo to the space station until American-built commercial space

19691969: Man takes first steps on the Moon. American Neil Armstrong has become the first man to walk on the Moon. The astronaut stepped onto the Moon's surface

1995

Galileo sent back hundreds of high resolution images of Jupiter and many of ... a polar orbit around Jupiter where it will study the planet's composition

1998

First module of international space station launched. Nov 20, 1998. The first component of the $60 billion International Space Station (ISS) was launched

1979

Much of the Sun's coronal structure was stable during this time, ... the US spacestation Skylab, shows the Sun's appearance in the combined X-ray wavebands

1996Pathfinder and Sojourner Explore Mars PATHFINDER FIRSTS PICTURES LANDING ON THE GROUND ... The parachute was released, and the lander, nestled inside its .... Pathfinder's mobile rover Sojourner was the first semi-autonomous

1926When does robert goddard launch his first successful liquid fuel rocket? ... Whendid Robert Goddard launch the first successful liquid rocket? ...

1954provide months of observing time hundreds of miles above the Earth's atmosphere, ... flare is unpredictable and it reaches its peak intensity in a few minutes. ..... The 1970s were to all appearances a “golden age' for space science. In 1976, two Viking .... of Small Mass,” Nature 159 (February 8, 1947): 186-90

1971In 1971, we had two missions to Mars,

Mariner 8 and 9, and one succeeded. ... Discoveries by Mariner 9. Mariner 9 took images of the following

1973Dec 1, 1998 ... NASA program managers set

Dec. 3 as the official launch date for the STS-88 mission aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour

1961Space Travel and Exploration question: Who

was the leader of the USSR when Yuri Gagarin ... When did Yuri Gagarin become the first man to go to space

1944The spacecraft will explore the Venutian

atmosphere where scientists want to ... The interplanetary space probe Magellan left Earth in 1989 and fell into orbit ... Pioneer 13, or Pioneer-Venus 2, was one big probe carrying four smaller

1972En route to the Moon, the Apollo 16

astronauts took several photos of Earth, one of which was with North America in the background, with much of the

1983We went to the Omni show Australia which

we really enjoyed. ..... You're a photo junky looking for a challenge, take pics of the "lightning". ..... and having been spoiled by the likes of Planet Earth

1930OHM Chapman Probe v2.1 OrbitHangar

Addons & Comments. ... Made the solar panels and magnetometer animations separate