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1990-1999 Timeline

1990-1999 Timeline. Brady & Daniel. Hubble Launch was delayed. Suppose to launch 1985 Space shuttle challenger exploded in 1986. 1990 Launch of Hubble Space Telescope. Named in Honor of Edwin Hubble Launched April, 4 1990 Packed with instruments -Give astronomers clear view

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1990-1999 Timeline

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  1. 1990-1999 Timeline Brady & Daniel

  2. Hubble Launch was delayed • Suppose to launch 1985 • Space shuttle challenger exploded in 1986

  3. 1990 Launch of Hubble Space Telescope • Named in Honor of Edwin Hubble • Launched April, 4 1990 • Packed with instruments -Give astronomers clear view -In Visible Infrared and Ultraviolet light

  4. Facts about the Hubble • Weighs 24,500 lbs-as much as two full grown elephents • Hubble’s primary mirror is about 2.4 meters 7 feet (10.5 inches) across • The Hubble is 13.3 meters (43.5 feet) long- length of a long school bus

  5. 1992-maiden voyage of Endevour space shuttle • STS-49 -May 7,1992 -Capture Stranded Satellite • Unable to retrieve satellite -added unplanned EVA mission • Endeour launched 2nd flight -Dedicated to japanese science experiment.

  6. 1993 First Hubble servicing mission • Launched December 1993 • Why the service mission? -Scientists discovered spherical aberration -Hubbles primary mirror • Installation of Device (COSTAR) -corrects flatness problem -mirrors outer edge (2 microns too flat)

  7. 5 Pairs of corrective mirrors • All placed in front of -Faint object Camera -Faint object spectrograph -Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph Results • Successful • Remedied Hubbles blurry vision

  8. 1994 “First Russian Cosmonaut Aboard Shuttle” • Launched: February 3, 1994 • Name: Sergei K. Krikalev -Communicated with amateur radio operators -Moscow • SAREX-Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment Equipment

  9. WSF-1 • Deployable • retrieveable/experiment • Designed- leave a vaccum wake -low earth orbit -10000x greater achieveable on earth • First attempt waved off -Due to radio interferance -difficulty reading status on WSF-1

  10. First Female Shuttle Commander • In 1990, Eileen Collins was only the second woman to graduate as a test pilot and be selected as a NASA astronaut • In February 1995, after several years of training with NASA, Collins became the first female astronaut to pilot a space shuttle mission; she served as second-in-command of the shuttle Discovery during its unprecedented rendezvous with the Russian space station Mir. In 1996. • Collins had logged 419 hours in space by the time she was chosen by NASA to become its first female shuttle commander. The shuttle Columbia, under Collin's command, made history on July 23, 1999, when it blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida

  11. Galileo and the 438 day single-flight mission • Cosmonaut Valery Polyakov set the world single-flight endurance record in 1995, when he completed a 438-day mission. • Galileo was the first spacecraft to examine Jupiter and its moons for an extended period of time • It launched from the payload bay of space shuttle Atlantis in 1989, got some speed boosts by swinging past Earth twice and Venus once, then arrived at Jupiter at last in 1995 • Circling the solar system's most giant planet for eight years, Galileo beamed back a string of discoveries to Earth despite encountering several mechanical problems.

  12. X Prize Competition • The Ansari X Prize was a space competition in which the X Prize Foundation presented a $10,000,000 reward for the first non-government organization to launch a reusable manned spaceship into space twice within two weeks. • The prize was won on October 4, 2004, the spacecraft used to achieve this award was known as; SpaceshipOne, it was mainly financed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. • To prevent damage to the historic spacecraft they decided to cancel any and all future flights

  13. Mars Pathfinder Lands On Mars • The pathfinder not only accomplished its mission of landing on Mars, it also sent an unexpected amount of data and outlived its primary design life. • The Mars Pathfinder entered the Martian atmosphere directly, and was assisted by a parachute to slowly descend through the thin martian atmosphere as well as giant air bag system to cushion its impact. • The pathfinder returned about 2.3 billion bits of information

  14. ISS (International Space Station) • The first piece of the international space station was launched in 1998, a Russian rocket launched that piece into orbit. • The international Space Station is a large spacecraft, it orbits about 220 miles above Earth. • The space station is known as a place where astronauts live, and as a science lab.

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