Galileo first invented the telescope in 1609, and used it in 1610. He pointed it to Jupiter, where he thought he saw three new stars, but were actually a few of Jupiter's Moons.

On March 16, 1926, Mr. Robert Goddard launched the first liquid fueled rocket named “Nell.” He launched Nell in Auburn, Texas. Flight historians say that this was as significant as the Wright Brothers. The rocket only weighs 10½ pounds. It only went 40 feet in the air.

On September 8, 1944, Dr. Wernher von Braun, a German scientist, helped launch the first V-2 rocket. This was the next model after the V-1. The V-2 was expensive, inaccurate, and generally a bad weapon. The first 2 to launch, directed at Paris, failed due to “premature cutoff.”

Before humans were launched in space, there were dogs, chimpanzees, and other various animals. Dezik and Tsygan were launched in September of 1951. Dezik and Tsygan made it home unharmed.

During the cold war, the soviet union launched Sputnik: The first satellite in space. President Eisenhower didn’t like this. In response, he created ARPA: the Advanced Research Projects Agency. Sputnik was more of a test satellite with no real purpose other than just getting data.

Yuri Gagarin was launched by the soviet union. He was the first person in space and successfully made it down. Instead of landing in the capsule, he ejected with a parachute and made it down that way.

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On May 25, 1961, The US launched Apollo 11 to the moon. Neil Armstrong first set foot on the moon. “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Since there is no wind on the moon, we can still see the footprints of that first trip up there.

On April 19, 1971, the soviet union created the first space station. The “Salyuts,” Meaning “Salute,” was sent up, followed by 8 other versions. These were the first space stations in history.

Imagine floating around in space. Imagine if something goes wrong, you might just be lost in space, just floating helplessly until you run out of oxygen and then you die. Astronaut Bruce McCandless put on a special backpack and then went outside of the spacecraft and just flew around. Nothing keeping him attached to the spacecraft. The device he had was called the MMU: Manned Maneuvering Unit.

In 1986, the Challenger, with seven people inside, tragically exploded 73 seconds into flight. The cause of this explosion was due to a leak in one of the two rocket boosters that ignited the main liquid fuel tank. The people who were in the shuttle were Sharon Christa McAuliffe, Gregory Jarvis, Judith A. Resnik, Francis R. (Dick) Scobee, Ronald E. McNair, Mike J. Smith, and Ellison S. Onizuka

This mission was to get a rocket to Saturn and orbit around it. This was to get information about the rings of Saturn and other various info.

The Kepler mission was designed to get pictures of other planets. These planets are not any-old planets. They are exoplanets: Planets that aren’t in our solar system.

So once the Cassini-Huygens mission was completed, we didn’t try to get the rocket back. Instead, we sent the rocket into Saturn. Kaboom. Instead of sending it to one of the moons, NASA made it go to the planet so that the moons would remain intact for future study.

When you have a lot of money, and own a space and rocket company? What do you do? You use one of your rockets to send one of the cars your car company makes with an astronaut manikin into space. That is what Elon Musk did. The car is more than likely still in one piece.