Timeline of Space Travel (Superpowers)

This is a separate but contiguous timeline meant to organize the all events relating to space travel and colonization in the Superpowers ATL.

Before 1900

 * 1024 - Roman dramatist rights a play about traveling to the stars in a Galleon
 * 1887 - Liquid-incendium is used to propel the first actual rocket

1901-1925

 * 1906 - Liquid-incendium and liquid-protium are used to propel a Mayan caelus from the mainland to Xamayca
 * 1908 - Start of Project Aetna on the island of Sicily, with the goal of creating practical sifocaeli (jet aircraft)
 * 1911 - Adrianus Orilla Stultus, one of the Project Aetna scientists, proposes a method of propelling a vehicle into space, this is the first realistic proposal for spaceflight
 * 1924 - Functioning turbine-liquid fuel jet hybrid is completed by Project Aetna, Roman scientists theorize it could be used to breach the atmosphere if more focus were put on the "liquid fuel jet" part

1926-1949

 * 1928 - Idea for a space program is put forward to Emperor Sulla II by Adrianus. Roman scientists immediately work on designing as efficient a rocket design as possible
 * July 1930 - Start of Operation Hermes within the Viris Mundi, with the goal of creating an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
 * February 1931 - First ICBM launched, from Olissipa to the Isle of Bann, by the Romans
 * December 1931 - Designs for using ICBMs to launch objects out of the atmosphere are completed. Start of the Artemis Program
 * 1932 - Mayans begin their own space program
 * 1935 - First man-made satellite launched into space by the Mayans. Tepeu I
 * 1936 - Concept designs for an inhabited satellite are made by Adrianus
 * 1937 - Tepeu II is launched. First man-made satellite to enter continuous orbit
 * 1938 - First Roman satellite launched into space as well as first geostationary satellite
 * February 1940 - Spaceship Hermes is completed
 * July 1940 - First human spaceflight performed by the Hermes
 * August 1940 - Artemis Program is extended to allow for manned mission to the Moon
 * September 1940 - 100th space flight for the launching of the 61st Roman communication satellite
 * June 1941 - First human spacewalk performed by Mayan Ticanauts
 * August 1941 - 100th Roman communication satellite launched. First worldwide satellite network
 * December 1941 - First Japanese satellite launched
 * July 1942 - Start of Project Helios by the Romans, with the goal of launching satellites to harvest solar energy and beam it back down using radionervae (lasers)
 * March 1943 - Detailed plans for the Castrum Astri are finished by Adrianus
 * October 1943 - First orbital telescope is launched into space by the Romans. Osiris
 * January 1944 - First man-made object lands on the Moon. Luna I
 * May 1944 - First module for the Castrum Astri is launched
 * October 1944 - Luna II is launched. It orbits the Moon taking pictures of both poles. Cratera Adrianus (OTL Peary Crater) is chosen as the site for the first lunar base
 * January 1945 - Luna III is launched
 * June 1945 - Luna IV is launched in preparation of the lunar landing
 * November 1945 - First Mayan communication satellite is launche
 * March 1946 - Luna V is launched carrying the first lunar vehicle
 * June 1946 - First man on the Moon. Lunar base is established. Luna VI