The WeWantOurFuture.org Initiative

Exploration?

• Does anyone here like to explore?

Humans have been exploring since the beginning of time…

Christopher Columbus - 1492

Lewis and Clark - 1803

Apollo

July 20th, 1969

Only 12 Humans have walked on the Moon

Space Shuttle – first launch 1981

International Space Station – began 1998

Want to go?

You can!

Private Astr

onauts

Private Space Station

Where we’ve beenThe Moon

One of Our Old Landing Sites

Our Next Landing Site?Planet Mars…?

Robotic ExplorersAre on Mars already

Others are further from Home

The Cassini satellite took this picture

Furthest from homeThe Voyager spacecraft has left the Solar System!

Voyager was this far away in 1990!

What’s next?

It’s up to you!

Where should we explore?

How will we get there?

Dream Big!

Never give up!

Ask for help!

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What are YOU going to do with that power?

This computer sent us to the Moon

Your phone is smart enough to do this too

The future is whatever YOU want it to be!!

Work hard, study hard, and nothing is impossible!

The WeWantOurFuture.org Initiative

Yuri Gagarin1st Man in Space!

April 12, 1961 launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on the Vostok1 mission

Space Shuttle Columbia

STS-1April 12, 1981

Yuri’s Night – April 12

Worldwide celebration of first

human in space and first Space Shuttle

launch

Postcard contest