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   * 1903 - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky begins a series of papers discussing the
     use of rocketry to reach outer space, space suits, and colonization of
     the solar system. Two key points discussed in his works are liquid
     fuels and staging.
   * 1926 - Robert Goddard launches the first liquid fuel rocket.
   * 1942 - Wernher von Braun and Walter Dornberger launch the first V2
     rocket at Peenemunde.
   * 1949 - Willy Ley publishes The Conquest of Space
   * 1952 - Wernher von Braun discusses the technical details of a manned
     exploration of Mars in The Mars Project.
   * 1953 - Colliers Magazine publishes a series of articles on man's future
     in space, igniting the interest of people around the world. The series
     includes numerous articles by Ley and von Braun, illustrated by Chesley
     Bonestell.
   * 1957 - Launch of the first ICBM, the USSR's R-7 (8K71), known to NATO
     as the SS-6 Sapwood.
   * 1957 - the USSR launches Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite.
   * 1958 - The US launches Explorer I, the first American artificial
     satellite, on a Jupiter-C rocket.
   * 1958 - US launches their first ICBM, the Atlas-B (the Atlas-A was a
     test article only).
   * 1961 - the USSR launches Vostok 1, Yuri Gagarin reached a height of 327
     km above Earth and was the first man to orbit earth.
        o - US, a Mercury capsule named Freedom 7 with Alan B. Shepard,
          spacecraft was launched by a Redstone rocket on a ballistic
          trajectory suborbital flight.
   * 1962 - the US launches Mercury MA-6 (Friendship 7) on an Atlas D
     booster, John Glenn finally puts America in orbit.
   * 1963 - the USSR launches Vostok 6, Valentina Tereshkova was the first
     woman (and first civlian) that orbited earth. She remained in space for
     nearly three days and orbited the earth 48 times.
   * 1969 - US Apollo 11, first men on the moon, first lunar surface
     extravehicular activity.
   * 1972 - US launches Pioneer 10, the first probe to achieve solar escape
     velocity.
   * 1976 - US, Viking 1, touched down on Mars in Chryse Planitia

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