NASA Timeline

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    Nasa

  • Space Program Started

  • Sputnick Launched

  • Sputnick 2 Was Launched

  • NASA Founded

    JFK announced the National Aeronauics Space Administration

  • Mercury Program

    Mercury Program was us trying to reach the upper atmosphere

  • Russians in Space

    Yuri Gagarin was the first one in space

  • Americans in space

    Allan Sheperd was the first American in space

  • JFK Space Challenge

    JFK challenges space program

  • First American Orbital Mission

    John Glenn was the first American launched into orbit

  • JFK Assination

  • Russian Space Walk

  • First Rendezvous

    The Gemini program rendezvous in orbit

  • EVA

    Extra Vehicular Activity

  • Dress Rehearsal Fire

    The Apollo 1 rehearsal caught fire and kille Chaffey Grissom and White

  • Apollo 8

    Apollo 8 Circles the moon

  • Apollo 11

    Buzz Aldrin Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins go into lunar orbit and are the first on the moon.

  • Apollo 13

    The oxygen tanks blew up in spave

  • Apollo 17

    This was the final launch of the apollo program

  • Skylab

    This is where NASA did all their experiments to see the affects of space

  • STS-1

    Space Transportation system 1 this was the launch of the space shuttle program.

  • Sally Ride

    First Woman in space.

  • Challenger

    This was when the challenger space shuttle blew up with teacher Christa Mcauliffe

  • Hubble Telescope

    This was one of the best inventions ever by nasa its a large telescope capable of taking pictures.

  • Had to Replace lenses

    The original lenses that they had supplied hubble with one of them had an imperfection which made the pictures blurry.

  • Colombia

    The space shuttle colombia burnt up in the atmosphere due to the lack of one of the heat panels.

  • Atlantis

    This was the last flight of the Space Transport Program.

  • Facts and Stuff

    Ronald Reagan originally wanted to but weaponry on the space rockets.
    Christopher craft- the father of the nasa program
    NASA wanted young people who were adaptable and had plenty of common sense
    3 Rows in the control room- The bottom row was the trench they were calculations the second was systems and the third was mission control
    The hippie movement started on Height and Ashberry
    Chaffey Grissom and White were the three killed in the Apollo 1 fire

  • Vocab and stuff 2

    Michael Collin- The Guy who didnt go to the moon
    John Aaron- Smartest guy who worked for NASA like ever
    Shuttles- Challenger Enterprise Colombia Atlantis Discovery