1. By : Sid Sandefur

2. 1900  The Russian scientist named Edurdovich Tsiokovsky formulated the mathematics needed of modern astronauts. He showed space travel was possible by the means of rockets.

3. 1914  An American scientist Robert H. Goddard patented the first rocket and is credited with creating and building the first liquid fuel rocket.

4. 1926  Goddard (still American) launches the first rocket proving his ideas on space travel and missiles.

5. 1930  V-2 spacecraft was made and was used as a missile by Nazi Germany in WW II. Then used by the USA and the Soviet Union in their space programs.

6. 1944  V-2 spacecraft left Earths atmosphere from Nazi Germany going four times the speed of sound. The first strike with the weapon was on Paris.

7. 1954  American Viking rocket broke the record for highest altitude reached which was 159 miles above the earth. The design was taken from the Germen rocket the V-2.

8. 1957  The sputnik program is the commonly known name of various robotic spacecraft missions launched by the soviet union. The first of them sputnik 1 was first man made object to orbit earth.

9. 1961  On April 12 1961 soviet Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space. Launching to orbit in the vostok 3KA-3.

10. 1961  The Redstone rocket was the first large American ballistic missile it was launched in 1961.

11. 1967  The lunar orbiter program was a series of five unarmed lunar orbiter missions launched by the USA. The pictures helped NASA choose where to land Apollo 11

12. 1969  Apollo 11 was the first space mission to land a man on the moon. Neal Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. Then a famous quote was invented, “one small step for man one large step for man kind.

13. 1971  Salyut 1 was the first space station of any kind launched by the USSR. When the crew was returning a pressure- equalization vale opened prematurely killing all three.

14. 1971  Mariner 9 was a NASA space orbiter that was the first probe to orbit another planet. It took pictures of mars.

15. 1972  NASA’s Apollo 16 was the tenth manned mission in the Apollo program. It brought back 94.7 kilograms of lunar samples.

16. 1973  USA’s first space station called skylab was a lab in space. It was launched by a modified Saturn V rocket.

17. 1973  The first US space station launched was called sky lab. It did many experiments in space.