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Space Exploration 1961-1968

Space Exploration 1961-1968 . Paige Hilliard & Haley Redmond Period: 9. 1961. First Men in Space. April 12 th Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin aboard the Vostok 1 108 minute orbit in space May 5 th American Astronaut Alan Shepard Project Mercury

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Space Exploration 1961-1968

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  1. Space Exploration 1961-1968 • Paige Hilliard & Haley Redmond • Period: 9

  2. 1961

  3. First Men in Space • April 12th • Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin • aboard the Vostok 1 • 108 minute orbit in space • May 5th • American Astronaut Alan Shepard • Project Mercury • mission not designed to go in orbit

  4. President Kennedy’s Speech • May 25 • Rice University Stadium

  5. 1962

  6. First American in Orbit • February 20th • John Glenn • Friendship 7 Mission • 5th person to enter space

  7. 1963

  8. First Woman in Space • June 16th • Valentina Tereshkova • Vostok 6

  9. First Geosynchronous Satellite • Syncom 3 • created in 1961 • launched on August 19th • one sidereal day

  10. 1965

  11. First U.S. Spacewalk • Ed White • aboard the Gemini 4 • went back and forth 3 times

  12. First Close-up Images of Mars • July 14th • aboard the Mariner 4 • close enough to Mars to get pictures

  13. First Space Rendezvous • U.S. astronaut Wally Schirra • Gemini 6 & Gemini 7 • same orbit for 20 minutes

  14. 1966

  15. First Docking • Gemini 8 • under the command of Neil Armstrong • spacecraft Gemini 8 docked with not formally named

  16. First Spacecrafts to Soft-land on Moon • February 3rd • Soviets • Luna 9 • first planetary object ever landed on • June 2nd • Surveyor 1 • Americans

  17. 1967

  18. Apollo 1 • January 27th • first U.S. space tragedy • cabin fire • Gus Grissom, Edward H. White II, and Rodger B. Chaffee were killed

  19. First Spaceflight Causality • April 24th • Vladimir Komarov • Soyuz 1 crashed re entering

  20. First Venus Probe • June 12th – October 18th • Venera 4 • Proved that: • water exsisted long ago on Venus • Venus was really hot

  21. 1968

  22. First Moon Orbit • September 18th • Zond 5 • got as close as 1,950 kilometers away • failed in re-entry

  23. Apollo 7 Mission • October 11th • launched from Cape Kennedy Air force Station in Florida • Walter M. Shirra, Donn F. Eisele, and R. Walter Cunningham • first manned Apollo mission

  24. Apollo 8 Mission • December 21st • first space craft to reach the moon and return back in orbit • Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders • first to see the Earth from the Moon

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