1. In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus (publish)____________“On the Revolutions of theHeavenly Spheres” claiming that the Earth and the planets (orbit) the Sun.
2. Galileo (use)____________the telescope to view the stars and planets before IsaacNewton (invent)____________the first reflecting telescope.
3. In 1686, Isaac Newton (publish)____________the Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy where he (lay)____________ the foundations for universalgravitation and (describe)____________the motion of the Sun and the planets.
4. After Robert Goddard (work)____________on rocket technology, he (invent)____________and (launch)____________the first liquid-fueled rocket in 1926.
5. On November 3, 1957, the Russian dog Laika (become)____________the first animal in orbit after fruit flies (be sent)____________to outer space by the United States.
6. In 1983, Sally Ride (become)____________ the first American woman in space after Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova (be sent)____________ in space twenty years earlier.
7. France (launch)____________its first satellite before Japan (put)____________its test satellite into orbit.
8. In 1971, the United Kingdom successfully (launch)____________ its satellite into orbit after China (do)____________that one year earlier.