Space Programs

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    Sputnik, Mercury, Gemini Missions

    -Sputnik, October 4, 1957 Sputnik 1
    -November 3 Sputnik 2 launched with a dog
    -Mercury, October 1959-1963
    -Gemini January 1962
    -Sputnik, led to satellites today
    -Mercury,put potential of man in space and beyond
    -Gemini, effect of weightlessness of crew members
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    Apollo Mission

    -6 moons landings
    -840 lbs of moon rock
    -water filters, memory foam, cordless tools, ear thermometers, scratch resistant glass and more was created
    -NASA expanded
    -moon walk July 20,1969
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    Mariner Missions

    -sent to Mars, Venus, and Mercruy
    -10 total space crafts
    -3 failed
    -learned more about atmospheres and surfaces of different planets
    -helped develop programs
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    Space Stations

    -salyut, akmnaz, sklab, mir, iss, tiengong
    -prove that humans could live and work in space skylab
    -skylab learned more about space
    -may 14, 1973 july 11, 1979 skylab
    -feb 20 1986-March 23, 2001 mir russia
    -tiengong to be launched in 2015 china
    -skylab is launched by the U.S.
    -mir is launched by Russia
    -Tiengong will be launched by China

  • Viking 1 Launch Date

    -viking 1 took first pic of Mars
    -discovered geological forms Mars created
    -viking 1-august 20, 1975
    -find more info about mars
    -looked for life on Mars
    -helped other Mars mission
    -pictures of mars

  • Viking 2 Launch Date

    -discovered geological forms Mars created
    -viking 1-august 20, 1975
    -viking 2 -sept 9, 2975
    -find more info about mars
    -looked for life on Mars
    -helped other Mars mission
    -pictures of mars

  • Voyager 2 Launch Date

    The day the Voyager 2 launched into space.

  • Voyager 1 Launch Date

    -gained knowledge outside of solar system and 4 new planets
    -explored 4 planets and 48 moons
    -september 5, 1977 voyager 1
    -mars rover
    -if there was water on Mars
    -material for research
    -tests on soil and rocks from mars

  • Cassini Launch Date

    -orbits Saturn on July 1, 2004
    -finds information about Jupiter and Titan
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    Space Shuttles

    -135 launches
    -accomplished bringing cargo and astronauts into space
    -discovery spent a year in orbit (record)

  • Magellan Launch Date

    -first spacecraft to land on/explore Venus
    -U.S. beat soviet union in landing on Venus
    -Launched April 28,1989
    -mapped 98% of planet with radar

  • Galileo Launch Date

    -studied jupiter and its moons
    -named after Galileo
    -arrived at jupiter December 7,1995
    -recorded approx. 1 hour of local weather in Jovian atmosphere

  • Hubble Launch Date

    -launched April 24,1990
    -brought back many pictures of space
    -launched with Discovery
    -We saw what nobody else had been able to see with the hubble telescope

  • N.E.A.R. Mission Lauch Date

    Launch Date of the N.E.A.R. Shoemaker

  • Genesis Launch Date

    -launched August 8,2001
    -crash landed on Sept. 8, 2004
    -analyzed different types of solar wind
    -collected elements from sun
    -discovered difference in oxygen and nitrogen from our planets and sun
    -changed view of origin of solar system