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Sputnik
successfully launched and entered Earths orbit, creating the "space age" this gave the Soviet Union the distintion of putting man on the moon fist. the word "sputnik" came from "fellow travler" but has become synonymous with "satellite" in moder Russa. -
LRO: Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
NASA sent five Lunar Orbiter spacecraft to the moon. images from these spacecraft were used by mission planners to slect the apollo landing sites on the moon this was a secsessful way to see pictures of Allollo 11 and 15. -
Apollo 11
The primary goal of Apollo 11 was to fulfill a goal set by President John F. Kennedy to perform a crewed lunar landing and return to Earth. The operational period of Apollo 11 was 1969 to 1972. Apollo 11 Landed in Sea of Tranquality. The mission was successful because it was a crewed lunar landing and returned to Earth. Apollo 11's main fuel source was rocket fuel. The three most importan results of the mission were lunar material brought back to earth, proof of lunar travel, and scientific -
Dawn
NASA's Dawn is a spacecraft successfuly completed the first of its ion propulsion system. The system is vital to the success for Dawns 8-year, 4.9 billion-kilometer journey to asteroid vesta and dawrft planet ceres. -
Mars Express
proof of mars's tempuatues showing data from the subsurface of MArs in th eice rich north polar platue of mars. Showing layers of depth of about 1.5 miles unders the surface. -
Huble Space Telescope
large telescope in space, it was launched bu NASA in 1990. Hubble is the length of a large school bus and weaighs as much as 2 elephants! travling around the earth at about 5 miles per second. -
Mars Odyssey
NASA's Mars Odyssey which launched in 2001, will break the record for Wednesday for longest-serving space at the red planet. it is also the longest working spacecraft ever sent to MArs, and is now been stending home images for 10 years. -
cindi
Key comp. of the science obj. of the comminication/nevigation outage forecast system (C/nofs) undertaken by the air force research lab. -
International Space Station
flew 253 miles above Auckland, new zealand. The hatch opening beings four days of operations to upload more then 1000 pounds of cargo from the fisrt comertial spacecraft to visit station to reload it with expensive cargot o return trip to Earth. -
Aquarius
produces its first global map of the salinity of the ocean surface providing an early glipse of the missions
