History
Space Travel Timeline
- 1926 - First liquid propelled rocket launched by Robert Goddard.
- 1946 - U.S. outer space research program started with German V-2 rockets.
- 1957 - Soviet Satellite Sputnik was successfully put into orbit.
- 1962 - John Glenn becomes first American to orbit the earth.
- 1965 - First American spacewalk by astronaut White.
- 1969 - Apollo 11 puts the first man on the moon.
- 1973 - NASA puts Skylab, the first space station, into orbit.
- 1981 - First trip of the Space shuttle Columbia into orbit.
- 1986 - NASA probe reaches Uranus.
Space Literature Timeline
- 1865 - Jules Verne publishes From Earth to the Moon.
- 1901 - H.G. Wells publishes The First Men in the Moon.
- 1927 - Fritz Lang publishes Frau Im Mond (Girl in the Moon).
- 1931 - David Lasser’s The Conquest of Space is published in the U.S.
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