Space Exploration

USA & SPACE

"I believe this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important in the long-range exploration of space; and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish." John F. Kennedy Special Joint Session of Congress May 25, oGKzVKc oGKzVKc

Dateline: Extraterrestrial Tourist American millionaire Dennis Tito became the first tourists in space. Visiting the International Space Station, arriving as a guest of the Russian Space Agency aboard a Soyuz spacecraft. Mr. Tito paid $20 million dollars...

Conquest of Space 50’s & 60’s First artificial Satellites 1957 Russians launch Sputnik 1

NASA NASA National Aeronautics and Space Act As a response to the Russian “artificial satellite”

NASA MISSIONS Mercury Missions : To get a man into orbit and back to earth safely ALAN SHEPARD first American in space mercury/missions/program-toc.html

NASA MISSIONS JOHN GLEN first American to orbit the earth

NASA MISSIONS Gemini Missions : To test the endurance of man in prolonged exposure to the environment of space pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/history/g emini/gemini.htm

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NASA MISSIONS Apollo Missions : To place a man on the moon and get him back to earth safely NEIL ARMSTRONG First man to walk on the MOON apollo/missions/index.html

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NASA MISSIONS

Apollo Missions :

SKYLAB First US Space Station Part of the Apollo Mission Launched to study the effects of prolonged exposure to outer space Launched in may of 1973 Abandoned due to delays in shuttle program Fell to Earth in s/skylab/index.html s/skylab/index.html

SKYLAB

NASA MISSIONS Shuttle : To create a reusable, less expensive space craft to transport man and objects into space and safely back to earth STS Space Transportation System nedy/shuttleoperations/archive s/2005.html

NASA MISSIONS Shuttle : Enterprise

NASA MISSIONS Shuttle : Designed to fly at least 100 missions each! Project Cost - 11 billion dollars Cost per Mission - ~ $600 Million

NASA SETBACKS Apollo ollo204/

NASA SETBACKS Apollo o13.html

CHALLENGER Disaster 1986

The Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster Why was the public so upset when the Challenger Exploded?  First private citizen School Teacher Woman ? Witnessed Via TV 8fz8v9vh5mE

The Space Shuttle Columbia

Crew of Columbia

The MIR SPACE STATION MIR (PEACE) launched in uttle-mir/index.html

Joint Efforts

Hubble Space Telescope

Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (GRO) After nine productive years in orbit, the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (GRO) mission came to an end when NASA redirected the spacecraft into Earth's atmosphere on June 4, The Compton Gamma Ray Observatory was the second of NASA's Great Observatories and was the first major space observatory to make a systematic survey of natural sources of gamma rays.

Chandra X-Ray Telescope

Exploring Earth’s Neighbors Pioneer 10

Voyager To Infinity and Beyond!! Launched in 1977 Left our solar system in 1989

Voyager’s Message

Un-Manned Space Probes Pioneer Voyager Ulysses Galileo NEAR Shoemaker Cassini Mariner Viking Mars Global surveyor Mars Climate Orbiter Mars Polar Lander Deep Space 2 Mars Pathfinder  Surface Rover Mars Odyssey  Does life exist? Water?  Climate?  Geology?  Prepare for Human exploration!

International Space Station Joint effort of 16 Nations  USA, Canada, Japan, Russia, Brazil, and the elevn members of the ESA  ndex-old-donotuse.html ndex-old-donotuse.html

Payload and Module Delivery Soyuz  Shuttle

SATELLITES Military Communication Weather Telstar Geological Space observation

Satellite Orbits Polar Geostationary or Geosynchronous Sun Syncronous –Landsat 7

Military Applications GPS Surveillance Missile Guidance Future weapons technology?

Future Developments ? Environmental Studies Explore the Moon Manned settlements on the Moon Manned expedition to MARS

Exploring Mars ESA - Mars Express Japan – Nozomi Joint effort to get a sample of Martian soil back to Earth by 2010 Manned Mission -- ?

Major Problems Prolonged Exposure to space  6mo. To get there  20mo. on surface  New technologies not yet available

Bioastronautics The study of how living organisims adapt to conditions of weightlessness and the readapt to life on Earth. Bioastronauts research and develop technological innovations to make this cycle occur more smoothly. Markert & Backer

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