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Space Exploration Timeline Info. THIS POWERPOINT GOES STEP-BY- STEP THROUGH THE NOTES SHEET YOU GOT TITLED “Notes—The History of Space Travel”

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Page 1: Space Exploration Timeline Info. THIS POWERPOINT GOES STEP-BY- STEP THROUGH THE NOTES SHEET YOU GOT TITLED “Notes— The History of Space Travel”

Space Exploration Timeline Info.

THIS POWERPOINT GOES STEP-BY-STEP THROUGH THE NOTES SHEET

YOU GOT TITLED “Notes—The History of Space Travel”

Page 2: Space Exploration Timeline Info. THIS POWERPOINT GOES STEP-BY- STEP THROUGH THE NOTES SHEET YOU GOT TITLED “Notes— The History of Space Travel”

Event #1Oct. 4, 1957. The Soviet Union launches a satellite into space named Sputnik 1.

It was a very simple device that took measurements of the upper layer of the atmos-sphere and sent information by radio signals down to the planet. It orbits every hour-and-a-half before it re-entered the atmosphere and burned up 3 months after launch.

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Event #2November 3, 1957: Sputnik 2 is launched, and everyone is stunned to see that thisspacecraft has a “pilot” on board—a dog named Laika (pronounced lye-ee-kuh).

The sad part was that Laika was never going to be recovered—there was no plan for thedog to ever land safely on Earth. It was thought to be able to live 10 days in space, butmay not have lasted an hour when some of the life-support systems malfunctioned.

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Event #3 The Americans finally get in the act, on February 1, 1958. Explorer 1 is the USA’s firstlaunched satellite to orbit Earth. It transmitted valuable new information about theprotective magnetic field around Earth. It orbited for 12 years before crashing into theOcean.

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Event #4 America strikes again with Vanguard 1, launched on March 17, 1958. Here’s some impressive news: next to the Moon, Vanguard 1 is the oldest object to orbit Earth. Yep, it’s still out there! This is the first space technology to use solar panels (instead of batteries that would run out after a few months) to power its instruments, providing a near-neverending supply of data to scientists.

Right:It took large,powerfulrockets tosend anyof theseobjects into orbit.

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Event #5On October 1, 1958, a famous American agency was formed—NASA. NASA stands forNational Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA had several goals—continue togather data about the Earth’s atmosphere and outer space, test new technologies forlaunching rockets, and of course—beat the Russians!

President Eisenhower gets a lesson on space.

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Event #6Wow, Russia has really been winning the “space race” so far. This is a big blow to theAmerican scientists—Russia sends the first man into outer space…a guy named YuriGregarin. On April 12, 1961, Vostok 1 blasts off and Yuri returns nearly 2 hours laterafter completing one orbit and parachuting from a few miles off the ground. Dang!

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Event #7America strikes back, sending its first astronaut, Alan Shepard, into space. The mission is called Mercury Freedom 7. It lasted only 16 minutes and didn’t actually goin complete orbit around Earth. Shepard was still hailed as a hero, and he laterbecame the 5th person to walk on the moon. It stung American scientists, though, thatthey lost the race to send a person into space by less than one month. Boo.

Shepard on the navy ship that rescuedhim after his ocean splashdown.

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Event #8Vostok 6 blasted off in Russia on June 16, 1963. On board was the first woman inspace, so the Russians beat us again. Her name was Valentia Tereshkova, and sherecorded data about the atmosphere for 3 days before returning safely to Earth.

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Event #9Here go the Russians again. Not happy with just going into space, on the missionVoskhod 2, they actually let one of their cosmonauts leave the space ship! Alexei Leonov left the spaceship (attached to it by a tether cord) and stayed out in space foraround 12 minutes. Cool. Except that his space suit inflated (due to outer space beinga vacuum) and he almost wasn’t able to make it back inside the ship. Brave Alexei.

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Event #10President Kennedy issued the challenge in 1962 that America NEEDED to go to the moon because it would be so hard to do so. And less than a decade later, we did. Nobody else has managed this feat. America just jumped way ahead of Russia in thespace race. On July 20, 1969, the Apollo 11 mission lands on the moon, and Neil Armstrong utters the famous words, “one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” USA! USA! USA!

This is awesome.

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Event #11If you’ve seen the movie Apollo 13 starring Tom Hanks and Kevin Bacon, you know that it’s a story of American brainpower and creativity overcoming horrible odds. Afteran oxygen tank explodes on the way to the Moon, the crew of Apollo 13 and NASAscientists in Houston are forced to abandon the plan to land on the Moon and insteadjust get the men home without killing them. Through days of hard work, they succeed.

NASA scientists working frantically. The crew safe, at last.

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Event #12The next Apollo mission, Apollo 14, lands on January 31, 1971 in the exact spot thatApollo 13 was supposed to explore. Alan Shepard leads this expedition, where millions of viewers watched on television as the astronauts played golf and threw javelins on the moon. Faith in NASA is restored.

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Event #13NASA scientists had envisioned a permanent space station, and in 1973, Skylab begana 12-year experiment to see how practical the idea was. Skylab used large solarpanels to provide electricity for itself, and allowed other spacecraft to float near it and“dock.” This allowed crew members to enter Skylab and leave when they needed to.Three such dockings occurred. The Skylab experiment ended, but provided valuableinformation about the realism of life in space.

A docking pod, where crew fromanother space flight could enterSkylab.

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Event #14July 1975 – The final Apollo mission was a good one. After nearly 20 years of outdoingeach other, America and Russia agree to do a mission together. The Space Race ispretty much done at this point—we can be friends now. Apollo 18 and the Soviet shipSoyuz 19 fly into space and dock with each other—allowing the American and Russiancrew members to meet in space. Cool.

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Event #15Finally, a space craft you recognize easily. On August 12, 1978, the Enterprise is thefirst space shuttle to be tested. Carried on the back of a much larger plane, the Enterprise “let go” and glided to a safe landing. Now NASA was confident that theshuttles could do missions on their own and perform a rolling landing.

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Event #16It was just a matter of time (a few years later) when NASA would actually send one ofthe new space shuttles into space for a real mission. In 1981, the Columbia blasted offwith the help of booster rockets, then landed on an Air Force base in California after 2days in space.

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Event #17Yet another space shuttle, the Challenger, blasts off on April 4, 1983. Part of the 5-daymission involved a four hour spacewalk where 2 of the crew members performed repairsof the shuttle. Nice work, gentlemen.

80s haircuts. Cool.

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Event #18About a billion years after the Soviet Union sent Valentia Tereshkova as the first womanin space, America finally sends its own female astronaut. Her name is Sally Ride, andshe performs numerous missions afterward and becomes a hero to many!

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Event #19August 30, 1984…the space shuttle Discovery successfully carries 3 communicationssatellites into space, a first for a shuttle mission. NASA keeps trying new techniquesto address old problems with great success. Americans are cocky at this point, as itseems like NASA can achieve any goal it wants.

Whoa. 80s hair is out of control in zero gravity.

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Event #20There were 4 space shuttles in service—Discovery, Challenger, Columbia, Enterprise, and Atlantis. On October 3, 1985, Atlantis joins the squad as the fifth (and final) shuttleto be launched into space. Atlantis carries some secret defense satellites into space(maybe to spy on our old friends, the Soviet Union?)

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Event #21Whoa. Hold the phone. Tap the brakes. What just happened? Was that supposed tohappen? On January 28, 1986, the shuttle Challenger lifted off, as planned. Kids allover America were gathered around televisions to watch the event live as it happened, and teachers were ready to do a space lesson right afterward. It all changed as 73seconds later, the shuttle blew up in mid-air, killing the crew and shocking the world.

Clapping and cheering here…

Stunnedsilencejust aminutelater

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Event #22In 1992, a new space shuttle, Endeavour, was launched into space. It was built as abetter replacement to Challenger, which exploded 6 years prior. After its July 5 launch,three crewmen space walked to grab a satellite that wasn’t responding to commandsproperly. After the longest space walk ever, the satellite was repaired and sent back into orbit. Endeavour is scheduled to be retired in 2010 after performing one last space mission.

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Event #23Oh no, not again. On February 1, 2003, people in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area felt a thudslam through their neighborhoods. The shuttle Columbia, returning from a long, successful space flight, was cruising through the atmosphere preparing to land in Florida. Days before, during the launch of the shuttle, a piece of foam damaged theheat shield on one wing of the shuttle. It didn’t become a problem until the shuttleentered our atmosphere going around twenty times the speed of sound. The heat fromfriction with the air burst through the weak wing, and debris from the shuttle flying apartwas found in several states! All 7 crew members died.

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Event #24NASA had two MAJOR incidents that shook America’s confidence in the space program.The explosions of Challenger and Columbia slowed down how often we went into space.Fortunately, one of the big achievements that happened after the Columbia disaster wasthe successful launching of the Hubble Space Telescope by the shuttle Discovery in 1990.This telescope has given us incredible images of events and objects far distant in 1991.the universe. Good job, Discovery.

One of the thousands of awesome images takenby the H.S.T.

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Event #25Another crowning achievement for modern scientists is a project worked on mainly byfive nations—a space station appropriately named the International Space Station. Construction began in 1998 and is scheduled to be finished sometime in 2011. Shuttlesfly crew and equipment to the space station frequently, where scientists stay for weeksat a time doing experiments in outer space. The I.S.S. is big enough to see without atelescope if you catch it at the right time of year at night. Pretty neat that it’s up there.

Cool.

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