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Sputnik/Gemini/Mercuri
Sputnik was made by Mikhail Tikhonravov in the Soviet Union. It was the first Earth satellite. It was made on October 4, 1957. Gemini was made by the U.S. and was the second human spaceflight program of NASA. Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States. It ran from 1959 through 1963 with two goals: putting a human in orbit around the Earth, and doing it before the Soviet Union, as part of the early space race. -
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Galileo Spacecraft
Made by America and Europe, it costed $1.6 billion. It lasted 14 years. Galileo was an unmanned NASA spacecraft which studied the planet Jupiter and its moons, as well as several other solar system bodies. The Pioneer Programs started on Augest 17, 1958 and Pioneer 10s last signal to Earth was on January 22, 2003 -
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Pioneer Program
The Pioneer program is a series of United States and TRW unmanned space missions that was designed for planetary exploration. There were a large number of missions in the program, but the most popular were Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11, which explored the outer planets and left the solar system. It costed $170 million -
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Venera Probes
The Venera was a series probes were developed by the Soviet Union between 1961 and 1983 to gather data from Venus.They analized chemistry, cloud formations, and pressure. -
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Mariner Program
The Mariner program was a program conducted by the American space agency NASA in conjunction with Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) that launched a series of probes designed to investigate Mars, Venus and Mercury from 1962 to 1973. It costed $554 million. -
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Space Stations
A space station is a spacecraft for supporting a crew which is designed to remain in space for an extended period of time, and to which other spacecraft can dock. -
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Viking Probes
The Viking program comprised a pair of American space probes sent to Mars, Viking 1 and Viking 2. They were created by NASA, and James Martin was the project manager. They were the first probes to land on Mars and we used them to learn about Mars -
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Voyager 1 & 2 Probes
Voyager 1 & 2 were launched into space. They were created by NASA, and made to provide interstellar sapce observations. They were both spacecrafts that went at the speed of 17 km per second. -
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The Space Shuttle
The Space Shuttle program was made by NASA. The progrqam was made to have a more efficent way to get into space. The space shuttle's purpose was to take astronauts to outer space and orbit Earth -
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Magellan Spacecraft
NASA created the Magellan Spacecraft. They were launched into space and sent ot Venous. They were launched from Kennedy Space Center.Mapping Cycle 1 was September 15, 1990 through May 15, 1991 -
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Hubble Telescope
The Hubble Telescope was made by NASA and European Space Agency (ESA). It costed &1.5 billion to build. It travels at 17,500 MPH. It is used to take HD pictures in space and be able to see things far away. -
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N.E.A.R. Mission
The N.E.A.R. Mission was made by NASA and was managed by Andrew Chang. It was made to study near earth astroids. It launched on February 17, 1996, and its last call to Earth was on February 28, 2001. -
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Cassini Mission
The Cassini Mission was made by NASA, the ESA, the ISA and 14 other coutries. It was made to explore Saturn and its biggest moon Titan. It costed $3. billion. Titan is the only known planet to have an atmosphere. Huygens release date was December 24, 2004. Huygens probe decent date was January 14, 2005. Huygens returned data to Earth for 90 minutes, then died. -
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Genesis Spacecraft
The Genesis spacecraft was made to collect solar winds. It costed $264 million. On september 8, 2004 it crashed into Utah. In 2005, the Genesis spacecraft finished collecting the solar winds. -
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Mars Exploration
Mars Exploration was created by NASA. It was two rovers, the Spirt and the Opportunity. They were send ti see if there was life/water on Mars. It costed $820 million.