In 1610, an Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei invented this to study the stars and planets.
He invented the telescope.
In 1914, Robert Goddard patented a very important invention for space travelling. What was it?
It was the rocket.
In 1944, the German rocket V-2 did this. What was it?
The rocket went to space.
In 1947, the USA launched the first animals to space. What were they?
They were fruit flies.
In 1840 John Draper took the first pictures of it using telescope. What was it?
It was the Moon.
In 1957, this country launched the first artificial satellite to space. What country was it?
It was the USSR. The satellite's name was Sputnik 1.
In 1959, an American satellite Explorer 6 took the first pictures of this. What was it?
It was the Earth from its orbit.
When did Yuri Gagarin go to space?
He went to space on the 12th of April 1961.
Who was the first woman that flew to space?
Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman that flew to space.
On the 18th of March 1965 a Soviet astronaut Alexei Leonov was the first person who did this. What was it?
He left the spacecraft and worked in the open space.
In August 1966 an American spaceprobe Lunar Orbiter 1 orbited the Moon and made this. What was it?
It was the map of the Moon.
On the 30th of October 1967 Soviet spacecrafts Cosmos 186 and Cosmos 188 did this. What was it?
They docked in space.
On the 20th of July 1969 an American astronaut Neil Armstrong was the first person who did this. What was it?
He walked on the Moon.
In 1970, the first Lunar rover successfully landed on the Moon. What country launched it?
USSR launched it.
in 1971, USSR launched Salyut 1 to the orbit. It was the first ...
It was the first space station.
On the 2nd of December 1971 a Soviet craft Mars 3 took the first pictures of this. What was it?
It was the surface of the planet Mars.
