The subject of astronautics and its links with other sciences
Astronautics is the theory and technology of flight for exploring and using outer space. The theoretical basis was laid by K. E. Tsiolkovsky (1903, the rocket-motion formula); in 1926 R. Goddard launched the first liquid-fuel rocket; led by S. P. Korolev, the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, was put into orbit on 4 October 1957, and on 12 April 1961 Yuri Gagarin became the first cosmonaut, circling the Earth once in Vostok 1 (108 minutes). On 20 July 1969 the Apollo 11 astronauts landed on the Moon. Later stages: orbital stations (Salyut, Mir), the International Space Station (first module 1998, continuously crewed since November 2000), the Voyager probes (1977), the Hubble telescope (1990), Mars rovers. Current directions: reusable rockets (SpaceX Falcon 9, first booster landing in 2015), commercial flights, China’s Tiangong station, programmes to return to the Moon (Artemis, Chandrayaan-3 in 2023). Astronautics has entered everyday life through communication, navigation (GPS), weather and Earth-observation satellites.
Make a poster of the chronology of astronautics (1903 Tsiolkovsky, 1926 Goddard, 1957, 1961, 1969, 1998, 2015, 2023) with one sentence for each event.