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History of Space Flight

  • Solid-fuel rockets
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    Solid-fuel rockets

    One of the main types of rockets used to get spacecraft into space.
  • Robert Goddard

    Robert Goddard

    Called ¨The Father of Modern Rocketry¨
  • Liquid-fuel rocket

    Liquid-fuel rocket

    Invented by Robert Goddard, is also one of the two main types of rockets used to get spacecraft into space.
  • Wernher von Braun

    Wernher von Braun

    The Germans made great advances with liquid-fueled rocketry during World War 2,under Wernher´s leadership.
  • V-2 ballistic missile

    V-2 ballistic missile

    Was built by German researches and is one of the first modern rockets.
  • Sputnik 1

    Sputnik 1

    The first artificial object to orbit the earth.
  • Sputnik 2

    Sputnik 2

    The first living creature to orbit the earth.
  • Explorer 1

    Explorer 1

    The first satellite of the United States
  • Van Allen radiation belts

    Van Allen radiation belts

    Large regions of solar wind particles trapped in the magnetosphere.
  • Vostok 1

    Vostok 1

    Made a single orbit around the earth
  • Yuri Gagarin

    Yuri Gagarin

    The first person to travel in space.
  • Alan Shepard

    Alan Shepard

    Became America´s first person in space with a fifteen.minute suborbital hop in the Freedon 7 Mercury spacecraft.
  • John Glenn

    John Glenn

    The first American to orbit the earth.
  • Valentina Tereshkova

    Valentina Tereshkova

    The fisrt woman to fly to space, the pilot of Vostok 6.
  • EVA

    The first extra curricular activity was the launching of three cosmonauts aboard a single spacecraft.
  • Gemini

    A series of ten manned space flights
  • Saturn V

    Saturn V

    A three-stage rockets launched spacecraft from the Earth´s surface to the moon.
  • Apollo Program

    Apollo Program

    Helped America to finally take the lead in the space race.
  • Apollo 11

    Apollo 11

    The fisrt mission to actually land a manned spacecraft to the moon.
  • Neil Armstrong

    Neil Armstrong

    The first human to set foot on another world.
  • Skylab

    Skylab

    United States fiirst space station
  • Mir

    Mir

    The Soviet Union´s space station.
  • International Space Station

    International Space Station

    Over fifteen nations were working together to build The International Space Station
  • Yang Liwei

    Yang Liwei

    A Chinese astronaut that orbited the earth 14 times in his Shenzhou 5 spacecraft.