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Alan Shepard
He was lunched in the Freedom 7 spacecraft, from a Redstone vehicle. He then ended up being at 116 statute miles and to a landing point 302 statute miles down the Atlantic Missile Range. Later on he then went on another flight as spacecraft commander on Apollo 14, January 31 - February 9, 1971. He had accomplishments for longest lunar surface stay time (33 hours), and longest lunar surface EVA (9 hours and 17 minutes).
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Sputnik 1
Sputnik meant fellow traveler. It successfully launched and entered Earth's orbit giving the soviet union a distinction for putting people on into the orbit. It was made of aluminum alloy had five primary scientific objectives. https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_924.html -
Explorer 1
t was the first explorer was the first sent up to space by the U.S. It was used as a cosmic ray detector designed to measure the radiation environment in Earth orbit. It took 220 miles to complete one loop away from earth, 1,563 miles away from earth. On March 31, 1970 it burned up coming into earths atmosphere.
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Luna 1
The first aircraft to land on space. It was sphere-shaped with five antennae coming from one side of the whole thing. The mission were to measure temperature and pressure inside the vehicle and the study gas. It was about 5.2 m long and 2.4 m and weighted about 361.0 kg.
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John Glenn
His friendship on his first flight showed american we mean business. He was the oldest man in space at the age of 77 years old. There had been many times where there had been big problems. The first problem was failure of the automatic control system, the heat sheild was loose. He then resigned from being an astronaut in January 16, 1964. -
Spacewalk
Ed White was the first american to do the spacewalk. It started at 3:45 while on the third orbit. He started by Hawaii and it took 23 mintues but then he ended by the gulf of mexico. After the first 3 mintues he ran out of fuel and was moving himself around and pulling on the tether.
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2 spacecraft rendezvous in space
The Gemini 7 spacecraft was watched threw the Gemini 6 spacecraft. It was about 9 feet away from the Gemini 7 spacecraft. https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_470.html
It had astronauts Frank Borman and Jim Lovell for 14 days. It was lunched at 2:30:03 p.m
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Apollo 1
Something bad happened at the lunch pad at Cape Kennedy, and many lives were lost. The fire swept threw the command module, and Astronauts Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee died. It stopped every lunch for about a year, and no mission was ever made for Apollo 1 and 2. They re-lunched Apollo 1 now called Apollo 4 in November 1967.
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Apollo 8
On Christmas Eve. of 1968 one of the most tragic years happened. Astronauts - Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders first human to orbit another world . People said the first ten verses of the Genesis, as they came back into earth. On Christmas day they relized Santa Clus is real. -
Laika the space dog
Laika was a 3 year old street dog from Moscow, it was the space race between the Soviet and the US. She out stood out the other dogs and stayed calm during those dramatic temperatures who weighted only 11 pounds. They built the air craft to keep her a live they had an oxygen generator. It was Laika and two other dogs, and there had been many other dogs before Laika. https://www.spaceanswers.com/space-exploration/what-was-the-first-spacecraft-to-arrive-at-a-planet/ -
Yuri Gagarin
He was the first human in space. The first person to follow orders, since 1993 the US and Russia have been working on flight experiments. Norm Thagar was the first american to stay in the Russian space shuttle.
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