Space Exploration

Unmanned Flights

• Launch of the “Space Age”

• October 4, 1957 Sputnik

• November 3, 1957 Sputnik 2– Laika

Unmanned Flights

• January 2, 1959 – Luna 1 (Russia)– Set to collide with the moon but missed– First object to leave Earth

• Luna 3 – photographed moon

Unmanned Flights (USA)

• January 31, 1958 – Explorer 1 Redstone Rocket

• Pioneer Probes/Ranger Probes– Moon

Unmanned (USA)

• Surveyor Probes– Landed on the moon

• Lunar Orbiter 1 (August 18, 1966)– Mapped the moon

Unmanned (USA)

• Mariner 2 (12/14/1965)– Venus

• Mariner 4,6,7 (1965 – 1969)– Mars

• Viking 1 and 2 (1976)– Mars

• Pioneer 10– Flew by Jupiter in 1973

Unmanned Images

• Viking

• Mariner 10

Russia Manned

• April 12, 1961• Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968)

– 108 minutes in space– Cosmosnaut– Parachuted back to

Earth

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Russia• Vostok

– Longest 5 days– First woman in space (Valentina Tereshkova 1937 - )

• Voskhod– Up to 3 cosmonauts– 1st space walk (10 minutes)

• Soyuz– Moon and back (lost the race by about 90 days)– Still in use today

• Salyut– Space stations (April 1971)

Russia Manned

Tereshkova

Leonov – 1st space walker

Soyuz

USA Manned

• Mercury 7 (First Astronauts)• May 5, 1961 Alan Shepard Freedom 7

– 15 minute flight

• February 1962 John Glenn orbit the earth (5 hours)

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USA Manned

• Gemini• Ed White – first space walk• Neil Armstrong/Dave Scott –

space dock

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USA Manned

• Apollo 1 (Ed White, Gus Grissom, Roger Chaffee)

• Apollo 7 (Borman, Lovell, Anders)

• Apollo 9– Tested Lunar Module

• Apollo 10– Moon rehearsed for lunar landing

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Apollo 11

• “Houston…The Eagle has landed”

• Mike Collins

• Buzz Aldrin

• Neil Armstrong

• Sea of Tranquility

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Space Shuttle1981 – 2011135 total missions

Columbia (2003)Challenger (1986)EndeavorDiscoveryAtlantis

Cargo Bay

Satellites – ISS – Hubble Space Telescope

Hubble Repair Video

International Space Station

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Hubble Space Telescope

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