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important dates in space exploration

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  • Philadelphia committee led by Benjamin Franklin attempts to regulate waste disposal and water pollution.

    Franklin's will stipulated the construction of a fresh water pipeline for Philadelphia

  • Henry David Thoreau published Walden

    Walden is a book by American transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings.

  • The term ecology is coined in German as Oekologie by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel

    Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel was a German zoologist.

  • The term acid rain is coined by Robert Angus Smith in the book Air and Rain

    he made the connection between the industrial pollution so rampant in the city at the time, and the acidity of the city's rainfall.

  • The term smog is coined by Henry Antoine Des Voeux in a London meeting to express concern over air pollution

    the term smog then appeared frequently in newspapers and journals because of the heavy air pollution in London and Los Angeles

  • US Congress created the National Park Service

    The National Park Service is an agency that manages all national parks, most national monuments, and other natural, historical, and recreational properties
  • first artificial earth satellite

    first artificial earth satellite

    The first artificial satellite was Sputnik 1, first to successfully launch and enter Earth's orbit
  • first animal launched into space

    first animal launched into space

    A dog named Laika launched into space aboard the soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2
  • First animals to return ALIVE from space

    First animals to return ALIVE from space

    Two monkeys, Able and Baker, became the first 2 animals to return alive from space. They were launched by the US on a jupiter missile.
  • First picture of far side of moon

    First picture of far side of moon

    The first picture of the far side of the moon was taken on Luna 3

  • Rachel Carson published Silent Spring

    The theme of Silent Spring is the powerful and often negative effect humans have on the natural world.
  • first human to orbit Earth

    first human to orbit Earth

    Yury Gagarin was the first human to orbit the Earth, this was accomplished on Vostok 1.
  • first space walk

    first space walk

    Aleksey Leonov was the first human to leave the space capsule (of Voskhod 2) and float freely in orbit. His spacewalk lasted 12 minutes and 9 seconds
  • First woman in space

    First woman in space

    Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman in space, this was accomplished on Vostok 6.
  • first death during a space mission

    first death during a space mission

    Vladimir Komarov was the first death taken place during a space mission. This happened when Soyuz 1 crashed into Earth.

  • The Apollo 8 picture of Earthrise

    It was a photo that showed humans a new perspective, with the moon in the foreground and Earth floating in distant space
  • First man on the moon

    First man on the moon

    The first man to walk on the surface of the moon was Neil Armstrong on Apollo 11.

  • First Earth Day

    Millions of people gather in the United States for the first Earth Day. US Environmental Protection Agency established
  • First space station launch

    First space station launch

    The first space station launch was Salyut 1, accomplished by the Soviet union.

  • Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete the ozone layer entered into force

    designed to stop the production and import of ozone depleting substances and reduce their concentration in the atmosphere to help protect the earth's ozone layer

  • The Kyoto Protocol was negotiated

    in Kyoto, Japan in December, countries commit to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide.

  • U.S. rejects the Kyoto Protocol

    Bush argued the division between Annex 1 and developing countries was unfair, and that both countries needed to reduce their emissions unilaterally

  • U.S. announces it will cease participation in the Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation

    Trump believed the agreement would "undermine" the U.S. economy, and put the U.S. "at a permanent disadvantage.

  • U.S. announces it will rejoin the Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation

    on his first day in office, President Biden signed the instrument to bring the United States back into the Paris Agreement.