4/20 - 8th Grade Agenda Learning Objective: Learn about unmanned space missions. Collect HW: Reading & Notetaking p.230 – 231 Drug Prevention Outreach program (Cigarette Smoking) Textbook Reading: p.520 - 524 HW: Reading & Notetaking p.233– 234
Daily Reflection Prompt: Write 3 prediction of what our space program will be like in 20 years.
Daily Reflection Prompt: Write 3 questions about Cigarette smoking.
Apollo 11 landed on the moon in July 1969
Apollo 13 explosion nearlly killed all the astronauts
Apollo Buggy was included in Apollo 15, 16, 17 (1971, 1972)
History of Manned Space Flight We have not been back to the moon since 1972 First Shuttle flight was in 1981 After 2 Shuttles were lost, the Space Shuttles were retired in 2011 International Space Station has been in operation since 1998
Space Shuttle Columbia and Challeger disasters Challenger Disaster 1986 Columbia Disaster 2003
Future of Manned Space Flight Orion Spacecraft is scheduled for launch in 2022 For $200,000 you can get a suborbital (68 miles high) flight from Spaceship 2.
Interesting facts about Manned Space flight Man has not gone to the moon since 1972. Man has not traveled past the moon. 2% of space launches have killed people 5% of Astronauts have killed in space launches.
History of Unmanned Space Probes Pioneer 10 & 11 launched in 1973 has visited Jupiter and Saturn. Voyager 1 & 2 launched in 1977 has visited, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus & Neptune and it is the space probe that is furthest away from space. It will take 40,000 years before Voyager 1 reaches within 1.6 light year of another star
History of Unmanned Space Probes Viking landed on Mar in 1976 Since then, Pathfinder, Spirit, Opportunity and Curiosity has landed successfully on Mars 6 other Landers have crashed on Mars
How does GPS work? 3 Global Positioning Satellite is required to triangulate your position using electromagnetic waves