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Space Exploration

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 .

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Space Exploration

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  1. Space Exploration

  2. Unmanned Flights • Launch of the “Space Age” • October 4, 1957  Sputnik • November 3, 1957  Sputnik 2 • Laika

  3. 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 • 

  4. Unmanned Flights (USA) • January 31, 1958 • Explorer 1  Redstone Rocket • Pioneer Probes/Ranger Probes • Moon

  5. Unmanned (USA) • Surveyor Probes • Landed on the moon • Lunar Orbiter 1 (August 18, 1966) • Mapped the moon

  6. 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

  7. Unmanned Images • Viking

  8. Mariner 10

  9. Russia Manned Video • April 12, 1961 • Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968) • 108 minutes in space • Cosmosnaut • Parachuted back to Earth

  10. 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)

  11. Russia Manned Soyuz  Leonov – 1st space walker  Tereshkova

  12. 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) Video

  13. USA Manned • Gemini • Ed White – first space walk • Neil Armstrong/Dave Scott – space dock Video

  14. 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

  15. Apollo 11 • “Houston…The Eagle has landed” • Mike Collins • Buzz Aldrin • Neil Armstrong • Sea of Tranquility Video

  16. Space Shuttle 1981 – 2011 135 total missions Columbia (2003) Challenger (1986) Endeavor Discovery Atlantis

  17. Cargo Bay Satellites – ISS – Hubble Space Telescope Hubble Repair Video

  18. International Space Station Video

  19. Hubble Space Telescope Video

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