space exploration

Space Exploration

Sputnik I

• October 4, 1957• Soviet Union launches

Sputnik 1• http://history.nasa.gov/

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Sputnik II• Laika – first dog in

space• November 1957

October 1, 1958National Aeronautics and Space

Administration

• NASA is formed after congress passes the National Aeronautics and Space Act

The Mercury Program1959-1963

April 12, 1961Cosmonaut Yuri

Gagarin becomes the first human to enter

space and return safely

Video Footage

Alan Shepard- First American in Space

Video Footage

John Glenn- First American to Orbit

Valentina Tereshkova- First Woman in Space

1963!

Apollo Program (U.S.)

The Apollo Moon Landing – July 20, 1969Astronauts Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin and

Neil Armstrong become the first men to walk on the moon.

Video Footage

November 13, 1971

Mariner 9 orbits Mars

September 1976

• Water discovered on Mars

The Space Shuttle Program (U.S.)April 12,1981

First Space Shuttle Launch

Deliverables:

Sally Ride- First American Woman in Space

• June 18, 1983• Sally Ride becomes the first

American woman in space with launch of shuttle mission STS-7 aboard the space shuttle Challenger

August 30, 1983

• Guion S. Bluford Jr. becomes first African American man in space with launch of shuttle mission STS-8 aboard Challenger

January 28, 1986

• First major catastrophe for NASA, when space shuttle Challenger (mission STS-51L) explodes 73 seconds after takeoff with 7 crew members aboard

February 20, 1986

• Mir Station launched

April 24, 1990

• Hubble Telescope Launched

July 4, 1997

• Mars Pathfinders land on Mars

November 20, 1998• First piece of the

International Space Station is launched (ISS)

February 1, 2003

• Space shuttle Columbia explodes upon re-entry.

January 2004

• Spirit and Opportunity arrive on the Martian surface.

• Opportunity still explores Mars today

September 8, 2004

• After capturing particles from the sun, Genesis crash-lands in Utah

• Samples recovered from wreck

August 4, 2007

• Phoenix Lander launches on its way to explore the northern pole of Mars