1 / 24

THE GREAT SPACE RACE TIMELINE

THE GREAT SPACE RACE TIMELINE. 1900. 1900 a scientist named Tsiolkovsky started testing rockets he didn't construct a single rocket but designed hundreds his achievements went unrecognized. 1981.

sef
Download Presentation

THE GREAT SPACE RACE TIMELINE

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. THE GREAT SPACE RACE TIMELINE

  2. 1900 • 1900 a scientist named Tsiolkovsky started testing rockets he didn't construct a single rocket but designed hundreds his achievements went unrecognized

  3. 1981 Space Shuttle The US space shuttle, first launched in 1981, was the world's first reusable space craft. Of its three components - the orbiter space plane

  4. 1957 Sputnik was the name given to a series of Soviet satellites sent into earth's orbit. .... It was the first man-made object to orbit the Earth. ... to US soviet relations when t became the first successful man made earth satellite?

  5. 1967 The Lunar Orbiter Photo Gallery can be accessed in the following ways: ... These photographs were taken in 1966–1967 to survey possible lunar landing sites

  6. 1914 A scientist named Goddard patented first rocket he had alredy recieved ... 1926 Goddard launches first successful rocket it went 49ft. in the air and it was

  7. 1971 Salyut 1 was the first space station put into orbit. The Soviets launched it from Baikonur Cosmodrome on April 19, 1971 using a three-stage Proton launch

  8. 1990 The Hubble Space Telescope's launch in 1990 sped humanity to one of its greatest advances in that journey. Hubble is a telescope that orbits Earth

  9. 1961 In January 1958, a modified Redstone rocket lifted the first American satellite into orbit just 3 months after the von Braun team received the go-ahead.

  10. 1973 Feb 24, 2011 ... 24, hours before shuttle Discovery launches on its final mission. ... The cargo ship hooked up with the space station less than six hours ... crews and cargo to the space station until American-built commercial space

  11. 1969 1969: Man takes first steps on the Moon. American Neil Armstrong has become the first man to walk on the Moon. The astronaut stepped onto the Moon's surface

  12. 1995 Galileo sent back hundreds of high resolution images of Jupiter and many of ... a polar orbit around Jupiter where it will study the planet's composition

  13. 1998 First module of international space station launched. Nov 20, 1998. The first component of the $60 billion International Space Station (ISS) was launched

  14. 1979 Much of the Sun's coronal structure was stable during this time, ... the US spacestation Skylab, shows the Sun's appearance in the combined X-ray wavebands

  15. 1996 Pathfinder and Sojourner Explore Mars PATHFINDER FIRSTS PICTURES LANDING ON THE GROUND ... The parachute was released, and the lander, nestled inside its ....Pathfinder's mobile rover Sojourner was the first semi-autonomous

  16. 1926 When does robert goddard launch his first successful liquid fuel rocket? ... Whendid Robert Goddard launch the first successful liquid rocket? ...

  17. 1954 provide months of observing time hundreds of miles above the Earth's atmosphere, ... flare is unpredictable and it reaches its peak intensity in a few minutes. ..... The 1970s were to all appearances a “golden age' for space science. In 1976, two Viking.... of Small Mass,” Nature 159 (February 8, 1947): 186-90

  18. 1971 • In 1971, we had two missions to Mars, Mariner 8 and 9, and one succeeded. ... Discoveries by Mariner 9. Mariner 9 took images of the following

  19. 1973 • Dec 1, 1998 ... NASA program managers set Dec. 3 as the official launch date for the STS-88 mission aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour

  20. 1961 • Space Travel and Exploration question: Who was the leader of the USSR when Yuri Gagarin... When did Yuri Gagarin become the first man to go to space

  21. 1944 • The spacecraft will explore the Venutian atmosphere where scientists want to ... The interplanetary space probe Magellan left Earth in 1989 and fell into orbit ... Pioneer 13, or Pioneer-Venus 2, was one big probe carrying four smaller

  22. 1972 • En route to the Moon, the Apollo 16 astronauts took several photos of Earth, one of which was with North America in the background, with much of the

  23. 1983 • We went to the Omni show Australia which we really enjoyed. ..... You're a photo junky looking for a challenge, take pics of the "lightning". ..... and having been spoiled by the likes of Planet Earth

  24. 1930 • OHM Chapman Probe v2.1 OrbitHangar Addons & Comments. ...Made the solar panels and magnetometer animations separate

More Related