Space Pioneers

1. Space Pioneers A look at the influential who conquered space

2. Konstantin Tiolkovksy • 1880’s: began work on the theory of rocket space flight • One of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics

3. Robert Goddard • Experimented with rockets and different fuels • Launched first-ever liquid fuel rocket in 1926 • One of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics

4. Arthur C Clarke • Realized the importance of the orbit distance around the earth

5. Sergey Korolev • Man who founded the Soviet Space Program • Made the USSR the world’s first space-faring nation

6. Jerrie Cobb • First Female Astronaut • NOT first women in space

7. William Pickering, James Van Allen and Wernhev von Braun • Designed Explorer One • First American satellite to reach orbit • A

8. Yuri A Garagain • First cosmonaut in space • Went once around the earth and came back safely

9. Gherman S. Titov • Second man to orbit the Earth

10. Alan B. Shephard Junior • First American in space • Flight was 15 minutes long

11. John H. Glenn • First American to orbit space

12. M. Scott Carpenter • One of the original seven astronauts selected for Project Mercury • Second American to orbit the earth

13. Andriyan G. Nikolayev • Set longest record for how long a human being has remained in space • First person to make a television broadcast from space

14. Walter M. Schirra • One of the original Mercury 7 astronauts • First person to go into space three times

15. L. Gordon Cooper • One of the original Mercury 7 astronauts

16. Valentina Tereshkova • First woman in space

17. Vladimir Komarov • First Soviet comsonaut to travel into space more than once • First human to die during a space mission

18. Konstantin Feoktistov • First civilian to make a space flight

19. Aleksei A Leonov • First man to walk in space

20. Frank Borman • Commander of the Apollo 8 mission: the first mission to fly around the moon

21. Gus Grissom • First person to fly in space twice

22. Edward White • Was the first American to walk in space

23. Roger Chaffee • Killed during pre-launch test of Apollo 1

24. Neil Armstrong • First man to walk on the moon • “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”

25. Buzz Aldrin • Fly with Armstrong and Collins on Saturn 5

26. Michael Collins • Called the “forgotten astronaut” of the Apollo 11

27. Alan Bean • Fourth man to walk on the moon • Commanded skylab

28. James Lovell • Commander of the Apollo 13 mission

29. John Swigert • One of 24 people who went to the moon • Was apart of the Apollo 13 mission and made the famous, dramatic announcement, “Housten, we ‘ve had a problem here.”

30. Alfred Worden • First person beyond Earth’s orbit to spacewalk

31. GeorgiDobrovolski • Part of the second Soviet crew to die during a space mission

32. VladislavVolkov • Part of the second Soviet Crew to die during a space mission

33. Viktor Patsayev • First man to operate a telescope outside of the Earth’s atmosphere • Part of the second Soviet Union crew to die during a space mission

34. Charles Duke • Youngest person to have walked on the moon

35. Sally Ride • First woman to orbit the Earth

36. Bruce McCandless II • First to take a spacewalk that employed a hand-controlled MMU (manned maneuvering unit)

37. WubboOckels • First Dutch citizen in space

38. George Nelson • Astronaut onboard the Challenger

39. Sharon Christa McAuliffe • First teacher sent up in space

40. Helen Sharman • First British person in space

41. Sergei Krikalev • Spent the most time in space • 803 days, 9 hours and 39 minutes

42. Eileen Collins • First female pilot • First female command of the Space Shuttle

43. Michael Foale • First British person to perform a pace walk • Until 2008, held record for the most time spent in space

44. Susan Helms • Conducted longest space walk to date: 8 hours and 56 minutes