space exploration!

By mturner16

  • early 1600's Galileo Galilei turned telescope towards the stars

    ever since then people havebeen searching for better ways to study what lies beyond earth's atmosphere.
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    space exploration

  • space age

    the space age began when the former soviet union used a rocket to send sputnik 1 into space, sputnik was the first artificial satellite

  • Yuri Gagarin

    Yuri Gagarin became first human in space

  • prject mercury, alan shepard

    alan was the first american in space

  • John Glenn

    john Glenn was the first u.s citizen to orbit earth

  • mariner 2

    mariner 2 was launched to venus and verified high temperatures in it's atmosphere.

  • Neil Armstrong, apollo 11

    mission apollo 11 with neil armstrong was the first to land and walk on the moon

  • pioneer 10

    pioneer 10, a space probe, was launched into space in 1972 and it's transmitter failed in 2003 it continues through space.

  • viking 1

    the viking mission was launched in august of 1975 to mars

  • hubble space telescope

    the hubble space telescope was launched into space by the space shuttle discovery