For decades, humans have traveled into space to explore what lies beyond Earth's atmosphere. Review a brief history of space travel, discover its benefits, and explore its risks and dangers to the people, animals, and spacecraft. A Brief History of Space Travel 'That's one small step for...
In the late 1930s, the German Verein fur Raumschiffart Society for Space Travel evolved into the team that built and flew the most advanced rocket for the time, the V2. View on timeline 1948 Bumper Project At the conclusion of the war in Europe, 300 trainloads of V2 rockets and parts ...
Space tourism, recreational space travel, either on established government-owned vehicles such as the Russian Soyuz and the International Space Station (ISS) or on vehicles fielded by private companies. Space tourism has gained new prominence as more opp
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Timeline Video Quiz Course 53Kviews History of Space Exploration Human exploration of space started formally in the 20th century. During World War II, many governments saw the potential for high-velocity long-range missile technology in warfare. The first object sent to space from Earth was the ...
The Air Force plans to launch its unmanned space plane this week. Here's a history of the space plane concept.
Timeline Browse By Year: 1989-19941995-19961997-20002001-20062006-2020All Jan 01 1988 Wide Area Information Servers (WAIS) Thinking Machines Inc. develops a new Internet protocol dubbed WAIS. Users can download a WAIS client to search through an array of distributed servers and access the documents...
For 227 years after the first contact, no European settled in Alta California, the territory of today's state. 18th Century California History Timeline 1769- The entrance to San Francisco Bay, La Boca del Puerto (The mouth of the Port) is discovered on November 1 by Sergeant Jose Ortega. ...
Here is a quick timeline of the first few years of rocketry: A rocket was used for the first time to send something into space on the Sputnik rocket mission, which launched the Soviet satellite Sputnik 1 on Oct. 4, 1957. The United States used a modified Jupiter-C military rocket (calle...
became the first privately built, owned, and operated manned vehicle to reach space. Attempts to develop spaceflight projects by organizations outside of the government have been going on since the "rocket age" of the 1920s and 1930s. The goal has been to put space development on a course ...