1. Space History - recent

2. 1957 Russia launched Sputnik 1 & 2

3. 1958 USA launches (Explorer 1)

4. 4/1961 Russia put 1st man into space- Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Gagarin Video

5. May 5th, 1961 1st American in space- Alan Shepard
Alan Shepard Launch

6. 3/1965 Russia 1st space walk

7. 6/1965 US 1st space walk
First U.S. Space Walk

8. 7/21/1969 US 1st Moon walk Apollo 11 Apollo 11 July 16th-24th /1969
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9. September,1977 Voyager 1
Still studies outer solar system and interstellar medium 18 billion km from the sun. Sending info. about magnetic field and amount of cosmic ray particles. 3/2013

10. Aug Voyager 2
The primary mission was the exploration of Jupiter and Saturn. After making a string of discoveries there -- such as active volcanoes on Jupiter's moon Io and intricacies of Saturn's rings -- the mission was extended. Voyager 2 went on to explore Uranus and Neptune, and is still the only spacecraft to have visited those outer planets. The adventurers' current mission, the Voyager Interstellar Mission (VIM), will explore the outermost edge of the Sun's domain. And beyond

11. 1981 Columbia – 1st Shuttle launched
August 30, 1983
-STS-8. First African-American in Space

12. 1986 Challenger explodes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4JOjcDFtBE

13. February 20th, 1986
Soviet Union launches space station Mir

14. 1990 Hubble Space Telescope

15. *First Module of the ISS (International Space Station is Launched)
July 4th, 1997
Mars Pathfinder- Lands on Mars and transmits pictures back to Earth
November 20th, 1998
*First Module of the ISS (International Space Station is Launched)
Opportunity 2004

16. February 1st, 2003 January 4th, 2004 August 4th, 2007
Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. Shuttle disintegrated upon Earth re-entry
January 4th, 2004
*Spirit Rover– Lands on Mars
August 4th, 2007
*Phoenix proble launched to Mars.

17. International Space Station
Started with Skylab
Russia’s Mir
ISS-16 countries contributed
Finished in 2009…

18. International Space Station
Permanently orbits Earth.
People can live there for years.
Researchers on Earth are using several experiments aboard the international space station to study health and safety issues, growing plants, studying health hazards from space radiation.