Subcategories - Astronomy, Astronomers, Cosmology

  1. Sergei Korolev
  2. Shapley Proves the Sun Is Distant from the Center of Our Galaxy
  3. Shepard Is the First United States Astronaut in Space
  4. Shuttle Atlantis Docks with Space Station Mir
  5. Shuttle Endeavour Gathers Radar Images for Three-Dimensional Maps of Earth
  6. Simon Newcomb
  7. Skylab Inaugurates a New Era of Space Research
  8. Skylab Proves the Value of Earth Observation from Space
  9. Slipher Obtains the Spectrum of a Distant Galaxy
  10. Slipher Presents Evidence of Redshifts in Galactic Spectra
  11. Sosigenes
  12. The Soviet Luna 9 Makes the First Successful Lunar Soft Landing
  13. Soviet Union Launches Sputnik
  14. Soviet Union Puts a Human in Space
  15. Soviet Venera Spacecraft Transmit the First Pictures from the Surface of Venus
  16. The Soyuz 4 and 5 Spacecraft Dock in Orbit
  17. Spaceflights of Voyagers 1 and 2
  18. Spacelab 1 Is Launched Aboard the Space Shuttle
  19. The Steady-State Theory of the Universe Is Advanced by Bondi, Gold, and Hoyle
  20. Supernova 1987A Corroborates the Theories of Star Formation
  21. Tiros 1 Becomes the First Experimental Weather Reconnaissance Satellite
  22. Tombaugh Discovers Pluto
  23. Tsiolkovsky Proposes That Liquid Oxygen be Used for Space Travel
  24. Tully Discovers the Pisces-Cetus Supercluster Complex
  25. Tycho Brahe
  26. U.S. Scientists Report Discovery of Ice Crystals on Moon
  27. U.S. Spacecraft Mars Pathfinder Lands on Mars
  28. The United States Launches Its First Orbiting Satellite, Explorer 1
  29. Van Allen Discovers the Earth’s Radiation Belts
  30. Venera 3 Is the First Spacecraft to Impact on Another Planet
  31. Very Long Baseline Interferometry Is Developed
  32. Very Long Baseline Interferometry Is Developed for High-Resolution Astronomy and Geodesy
  33. Viktor A. Ambartsumian
  34. Von Weizsäcker Finalizes His Quantitative Theory of Planetary Formation
  35. Voyager 1 and 2 Explore the Planets
  36. Wernher von Braun
  37. Wheeler Names the Phenomenon “Black Holes”
  38. Yuri Gagarin
  39. Zwicky and Baade Propose Their Theory of Neutron Stars