Exploring space 1 How did people first investigate the planets? 7Ld Focus on: Exploring space 1 How did people first investigate the planets? 2 What was the first object to be sent into space? 3 What is the furthest place in the Solar System that humans have visited? 4 a) Who was the first person in space? b) Who were the first people to walk on the Moon?

7Ld Focus on: Exploring space 5 The Hubble telescope is in orbit around the Earth. Why would a telescope in orbit be able to take better pictures than a telescope on Earth?

7Ld Focus on: Exploring space 6 The space probes on this page are not the only ones that have explored space. Find out about the following space probes, where they went and what they found out: a) Voyager 1 and 2 b) Galileo. Pathfinder and Sojourner on Mars Astronauts repairing the Hubble Space Telescope

Exploring space 1 How did people first investigate the planets? 7Ld Focus on: Exploring space 1 How did people first investigate the planets? using telescopes 2 What was the first object to be sent into space? Sputnik 1

7Ld Focus on: Exploring space 3 What is the furthest place in the Solar System that humans have visited? the Moon 4 a) Who was the first person in space? Gagarin b) Who were the first people to walk on the Moon? Armstrong and Aldrin

7Ld Focus on: Exploring space 5 The Hubble telescope is in orbit around the Earth. Why would a telescope in orbit be able to take better pictures than a telescope on Earth? There is no atmosphere to interfere with the light from the stars.

7Ld Focus on: Exploring space 6 Find out about the following space probes, where they went and what they found out: a) Voyager 1 and 2 Voyager 1 and 2 were unmanned space probes that flew by the outer planets and returned pictures and other information to Earth.

7Ld Focus on: Exploring space 6 Find out about the following space probes, where they went and what they found out: b) Galileo. Galileo was sent to Jupiter where it dropped a probe into Jupiter's atmosphere to collect more data about the planet’s surface. It continued to orbit Jupiter for some time, sending data about Jupiter’s moons back to Earth.