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Space Exploration
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Poineer Program
On August 17, 1958 was when Pioneer 0 was sent off but then the rocket exploded and he died. That was the first data they started to send people of to seek out more about space. -
Venera
The first date here is the laucnh of the first Venera probe. The first three were failed missions. Over the course of about 20 years, there were 16 total Venera missions to explore Venus. -
Sputnik/Mercury/Gemini
May 1961--American astronaut Alan Shepard went briefly into space, but not into orbit, on the
Mercury 3 mission.
February 1962--John Glenn spent five hours in orbit on Mercury 6.
June 1965--Gemini IV astronaut Edward White made the first U.S. spacewalk.
Sputnik launched October 4th 1957
Mercury – May 5th, 1961
Gemini – May 25th 1961 -
Mariner Spacecraft
On July, 1962 the Mariner Space Probe was launched into space on its first mission. The main goal of the first mission was to make flybys Venus, but mission 1 was a failed mission as the rocket that mariner 1 was in went off course. -
Viking
This probe was the firrst one of its kind to be sent to Mars. Later, a repleca, the Viking 2, would be created and also sent to Mars. Its job was to take incredibly high-definition pictures of Mars. -
The Space Shuttle
The Space Shuttle was a crewed, partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft operated by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA. Its official program name was Space Transportation System, taken from a 1969 plan for a system of reusable spacecraft of which it was the only item to be funded for development. The first of four orbital test flights occurred in 1981, leading to operational flights beginning in 1982. It was used on a total of 135 missions from 1981 to 2011, -
Magellan Spacecraft
On May 4th, 1989 the1,035-kilogram (2,280 lb) robotic space probe. The Magellan Spacecraft" was launched into space to map the surface of Venus using Synthetic Aperture Radar and measure the planetary gravity. -
Galieo Spacecraft
On October 18th, 1989 the Gelieo Spacecraft was launched and set for its exploration. It was carried up by shuttle and made many flybys by planets and went into the graviatational pulls of planets and measured the atomsphere of the them and it discovered the first astroid moon on its first astroid and brought back lots of important information to NASA. -
Hubble Space Telescope
On April 24th, 1990 the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into space to make more discoveries in differnt galaxies. The telescope toke some of the best pictures everytaken of planets, galaxies, and milkyways. The telescope really showed NASA a better view of planets and galaxies. -
Voyager
Voyager 1 was laucnhed by NASA. It was the first manmade object to travel to space. The goal was to further investigate space, take pictures of the universe, new stars, new planets, new galaxies, and more. -
Cassini
On October 15th, 1997 the Cassini Probe was launched into space and started its mission to Saturn and to also take flybyes by Earth, Venus and Jupiter to explore and voyage our solar system. -
Space Stations
Expedition 1 (First ISS Crew)
Launched October 31, 2000
Landed March 21, 2001
Was in orbit for 141 days
On ISS for 136 days
Expedition 35
Soyuz TMA-07M:
Launched December 19, 2012
Docked on December 21, 2012
Will land back on Earth in May 2013
Soyuz TMA-08M
Launched March 28, 2013
Docked March 28, 2013
Will land back on Earth in September 2013 -
N.E.A.R Spacecraft
On Feburart 12, 2001, the NEAR spacecraft touched down on asteroid Eros, after transmitting 69 close-up images of the surface during its final descent. -
Genesis Spacecraft
On August 8th, 2001 the Genesis Spacecraft was sent into space. It measured solar wind and returned back for anaysis. It was a sample and return probe that NASA had used to record information. -
Mars Rover
January 25, 2004, the NASA rover Opportunity landed on Mars. It joined its twin, Spirit, which had landed three weeks earlier.
