June Nussbaumer Courtney Cook Sydney Brubaker

1. Space explorations of 1973-1980 June Nussbaumer Courtney Cook Sydney Brubaker

2. 1973-1974

3. Skylab • United States first space station • Launched by NASA • Orbited the Earth • Unmanned • Immediate technical problems • Vibrations during liftoff

4. Skylab crew #1 • Captain Charles Conrad, Jr. (Left) • Commander Joseph P. Kerwin(Middle) • Commander Paul J. Weitz (Right) • Went to Skylab to repair • May 25th - June 22nd • 404 orbits and 392 experiment hours were completed

5. Skylab crew #2 • Alan L. Bean (Left) • Jack R. Lousma(Middle) • Owen K. Garriott(Right) • Continued maintenance • Completed 858 Earth orbits

6. Skylab crew #3 • Gerald P. Carr (Left) • November 16 - February 8  • William R. Pogue (Middle) • Edward G. Gibson (Right) • Comet Kohoutek • 84 days and 1 hour

7. 1975

8. First image of venus 1975 • Venera 13 • Soviet 13 • Soviet Spacecraft • First lander to transmit colored images • Lasted 2 hours • Only one since the 1980’s to Venus

9. 1976

10. Viking 1 & viking 2 • Summer of 1976 • Carried series of science packages • First picture before it landed looked like a sandy, dusty surface with rocks. • Lander 1 shows gently rolling landscapes • Lander 2 looks like rocky dessert on earth

11. 1977

12. Voyager 1 & 2 • Jupiter • Neptune • Uranus • Saturn • Summer of 1977

13. 1978

14. U.S probe • May 20, 1978 • Atlas Centaur • Pioneer Venus Orbiter, December 4, 1978 • 17 experiments

15. 1979-1980

16. Voyager 1 & 2 Jupiter • Closest approach to Jupiter on March 5, 1979 (Voyager 1) • Closest approach to Jupiter on July 9, 1979 (Voyager 2) • Photography of Jupiter began on January 1979 • Voyager 1 completed its Jupiter encounter in early April. Taking almost 19,000 pictures • Voyager 2 completed its Jupiter encounter into August. Taking 33,000 pictures of Jupiter and its 5 major satellites.

17. Voyager 1 & 2 Saturn • Pioneer 11 carried out the first fly by of Saturn on Septermber 1979 • Images taken of the planet and a few of its moons • Spacecraft also studied saturns rings • November 1980 the Voyager probe visited Saturns Systems. • Surface features of various moons were seen for the first time

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