1. A Brief History of Space Exploration Focus on manned space flight Little emphasis on non-US contributions VERY limited highlights of unmanned missions

2. Robert Goddard Father of American Rocketry First liquid propelled rocket - 1926

3. Dr. Werner von Braun Leader of Nazi rocketry research Inventor of the V-2 Rocket War criminal? Victim of Nazi “scorched Earth”? American hero?

4. I have learned to use the word "impossible“ with the greatest caution.” Slated for execution to prevent capture by the Allies A “prize” for which the Russians and Americans competed Surrendered to Americans Became the “father” of the U.S. space program

5. Sputnik – October 4, 1957 “October Sky”

6. The “Space Race” Sputnik puts America into near panic 4/12/61 USSR puts Yuri Gagarin into space America Responds with Project Mercury

7. Project Mercury – “The Right Stuff” Mercury Redstone Rocket Single astronaut First U.S. manned ballistic flight – Alan Shephard 5/5/61

8. Astronaut and Senator John Glenn Mercury Freedom 7 First American to orbit Earth 2/20/62 Oldest person to travel in space (Space Shuttle)

9. Liberty 7 on the seafloor A near tragedy

10. Project Gemini Titan Rocket Two astronauts First “Space Walk” (EVA) Rendezvous with Agena modules and with other Gemini capsules

11. Gemini capsule

12. Ed White Gemini 4 EVA

13. Mercury and Gemini – preludes to Apollo Project

14. Apollo 8 Liftoff from KSC 12/21/68

15. Earthrise from lunar orbit – Apollo 8

16. Apollo 11: Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin July 16, 1969

17. Apollo 11 LM – “Eagle”

18. “Houston, the Eagle has landed.”

19. Neil Armstrong – First Man on the Moon

20. Buzz Aldrin – second man on the moon

21. Lunar Rock from Apollo 11 Mission

22. Buzz Aldrin

23. Apollo 11 – American Heroes

24. Earthrise from lunar orbit

25. Apollo 17 Lunar Rover – 12/72

26. Apollo 17 Geologist Harrison Schmidt

27. Apollo 17 – Harrison Schmidt and Lunar Rover

28. Apollo 17 Astronaut Harrison Schmitt in the field with Oneonta Alumni and Students - 2003

29. Skylab – a bridge between Apollo and the Shuttle - 1973

30. Space Shuttle – 1980’s to present (?)

31. Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster January 28, 1986 Shuttle blows up 73 seconds after liftoff Six professional astronauts – a spectrum of America Christa McAuliffe – first teacher in space

32. HST – precious cargo for the Shuttle

33. Hubble Space Telescope

34. Hubble probes the mysteries of the cosmos

35. Soyuz – the Russian endeavor

36. Mir – a record of Russian accomplishment

37. Gene and Carolyn Shoemaker Gene Shoemaker – a would-be astronaut Geologist and land- based explorer of space Pioneer in study of impact structures

38. Shoemaker-Levy 9 and Jupiter

39. Scar from Shoemaker-Levy 9

40. Some Current Efforts International Space Station Search for extra-terrestrial planets Monitoring Earth’s atmosphere Sofia – Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy Mars Global Surveyor Mars Rovers

41. Unmanned Exploration Mars Pathfinder and Sojourner Rover

42. Mars Pathfinder

43. Panorama from surface of Mars

44. Messenger Messenger will arrive at Mercury in 2011 Begin 1 year orbit to image and map surface