Space flight

By Solecito00
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    Solid-fuel rockets

    Also called rocket motors, have been used since the 1200s to launch fireworks and small military rockets.

  • Robert Goddard

    "Father of the Modern Rocketry"

  • Liquid-fuel rocket

    Also called rocket engines, use various combination of liquid chemicals.

  • Wernher Vin Braun

    German researchers designed and built the V-2 ballistic missile.

  • V-2 ballistic missile

    One of the first modern rockets.

  • Sputnik 1

    The first artificial object to orbit the earth.

  • Explorer 1

    United States first satellite.

  • Yuri Gagarin

    Became the first person to travel in space.

  • Alan Shepard

    Became America's first person in space.

  • John Glenn

    Became the first American to orbit the earth.

  • Valentina Tereshkova

    Became the first woman to fly in space.

  • EVA

    Extra Vehicular Activity, is any activity performed by an astronaut outside a spacecraft.
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    Gemini

    A series of ten manned space flights .

  • Apollo 8

    Launched the first manned spacecraft to orbit the moon.

  • Apollo 11

    Apollo CSM Columbia orbited the moon.

  • Space shuttle

    A new type of spacecraft, the first spacecraft designed to be reused.

  • International Space Station

    Over fifteen nation's were working together to build what is now (ISS).

  • Yang Li-wei

    The taikonaut that orbited the earth 14 times in his Shenzhou 5 spacecraft.