1. 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
HW: Reading & Notetaking p.233– 234

2. Daily Reflection
Prompt: Write 3 prediction of what our space program will be like in 20 years.

3. Daily Reflection
Prompt: Write 3 questions about Cigarette smoking.

4. Apollo 11 landed on the moon in July 1969

5. Apollo 13 explosion nearlly killed all the astronauts

6. Apollo Buggy was included in Apollo 15, 16, 17 (1971, 1972)

7. 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

8. Space Shuttle Columbia and Challeger disasters
Challenger Disaster 1986
Columbia Disaster 2003

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. History of Unmanned Space Probes
Pioneer 10 & 11 launched in 1973 has visited Jupiter and Saturn.
Voyager 1 & 2 launched in 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

12. 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

13. How does GPS work?
3 Global Positioning Satellite is required to triangulate your position using electromagnetic waves