THE GREAT SPACE RACE TIMELINE

The beginning During the early years of the Space

Race, success was marked by headline-making "firsts": the first satellite, first robotic spacecraft to the Moon, first man in space, first woman in space, first spacewalk. To the dismay of the United States, each of these early feats was achieved by the Soviet Union. These events triggered a drive to catch up with--and surpass--the Soviets.

1900 A scientist named Tsiolkovsky started

testing rockets

1981 The first re-usable shuttle,Columbia,was

launched

1957Soviet satellite ,

sputnik , became the first manmade object

to orbit earth

1967 Photograph of moon taken by lunar orbiter

1974 A scientist name Goddard patented

1971 First space

station ,salute(end orbit1973)

1990 Hubble telescope

launched

1973 America launches the

space station

1961 The Redstone rocket

lifted

1969Neil Armstrong on

the moon

1995 Galileo sends back photo and about Jupiter compotation

1998 First modules of the international space lunched(2 countries)

1979 Skylab shows the image of the sun`s corona

1926 Goddard launches the first successful rocket

1971 Mariner 9 took of

mars

1973 First US space station launched (Skylab)

1954 Viking spacecraft reached 159 miles above the earth

1961 Soviet Yuri Gagarin become the first space traveler

1944 V-2 spacecraft left earth atmosphere

1972 Apollo 16 takes picture of earth

1986 Mir space station

launched

1930 V-2 spacecraft left earth atmosphere

1996 Images from satellite show Martian soil-from first US space probe to land on another planet,Viking1

1983 Challengers takes

a photo of earth that shows Australia