Galileo Galilei Edmund Halley The Wright Brothers Sputnik I Yuri Gagarin Apollo 11 Vikings I and 2 Voyager 1 and 2 Columbia Spaceship Space Shuttle Challenger Hubble Space Telescope Mars Orbiter Buzz Aldrin (1st man on moon) NASA Questions that they need to answer: For People: What are they known for? When did the event happen? What impact did this have on society? Any neat facts that they want to include. For Spaceships and...

Sputnik 1 (Russian: “Cпутник-1″ Russian pronunciation: [ˈsputʲnʲɪk], “Satellite-1″, ПС-1 (PS-1, i.e. “Простейший Спутник-1″, or Elementary Satellite-1))[1] was the first artificial satellite to be put into Earth’s orbit. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957. The unanticipated announcement of Sputnik...

The Wright brothers, Orville (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) and Wilbur (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912), were two Americans credited[1][2][3] with inventing and building the world’s first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight, on December 17, 1903. In the two years afterward, the brothers developed their flying machine into the first practical...

Edmond Halley FRS (/ˈɛdmənd ˈhæli/;[1][2] 8 November 1656 – 14 January 1742) was an English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist who is best known for computing the orbit of the eponymous Halley’s Comet. He was the second Astronomer Royal in Britain, following in the footsteps of John Flamsteed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_Halley   Related articles Google...

Galileo Galilei (Italian pronunciation: [ɡaliˈlɛːo ɡaliˈlɛi]; 15 February 1564[4] – 8 January 1642),[1][5] commonly known as Galileo, was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, andphilosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution. His achievements include improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations and support forCopernicanism. Galileo has been called the “father...

Theodor Schwann http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Schwann http://www.nndb.com/people/357/000096069/ http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Schwann.html http://www.merke.ch/biografien/biologen_en/schwann.php Antony van...