1. Loren W. Acton Montana State University January 20, 2011 Interact Rotary Club Bozeman High School

2. We humans are motivated to dream, to explore, to discover, to learn. "Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.” -- Robert H. Goddard

3. Dr. Robert H. Goddard 1882-1945

4. The beginning of space exploration First view of Earth from a camera on V-2 #13, launched October 24, 1946. White Sands Missile Range/Applied Physics Laboratory

5. J. F. Kennedy -- Rice University September 12, 1962

6. Buzz Aldrin setting out scientific instruments on Apollo 11.

7. Al Bean, tourist pose, Apollo 12

8. Did Galileo get it right? - Dave Scott, experimenter Apollo 15 Painting by Al Bean, Apollo 12

9. Apollo 16 Rover Grand Prix Apollo 17 Oops!Apollo 17 “Dad gummit!” Apollo 17 Rock hounds

10. * July 29, 1985. Second launch attempt. *

11. Off to work on the ISS

12. Soyuz, another route to the ISS

13. “Butch” Wilmore gives a tour of the ISS

14. Shuttle “Fly around”

15. Wonders of Robotic Space Exploration “Humans in space” have generated a grand public interest and excitement. Yet, it is robotic space explorations that have paid the biggest dividends of remarkable new knowledge and useful applications. E.g., Solar physics and space weather. Planetary exploration. Astronomy and astrophysics. Earth remote sensing, climate and weather. Global Positioning System. Communication and broadcasting. Military intelligence. Today we’ll touch on only a few exciting experiments.

16. The GOES-13 satellite captured a "full-disk image" of North and South America on December 30 at 09:45 EST, as the world awaited the new year. Credit: NOAA/NASA GOES Project

17. A Robot's Shadow on Asteroid Itokawa Hayabusa, a mission of ISAS/JAXA, Japan Image of Itokawa taken by Hayabusa.

18. Hayabusa capsule in Woomera, Australia, desert. Sample return from Asteroid Itokawa. December 2010. ISAS/JAXA Hayabusa Mission.

19. First sample from Itokawa

20. Snowstorm Engulfs Comet Hartley 2 Observed by NASA Deep Impact (extended) mission on November 4, 2010. Comet Hartley 2, photographed on Oct. 13, 2010 by Nick Howes using the 2-meter Faulkes North Telescope in Hawaii.

21. Source of the Hartley 2 snow storm. 2 km CO 2 jet

22. Solar Dynamics Observatory Blue: 0.8 MK, Green: 1.3 MK, Red: 2.0 MK January 2011

23. Big (M5.4) x-ray flare. 6 Nov. 2010 15:36 NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory

24. A coronal mass ejection (CME) observed by STEREO on Dec. 12, 2008

25. NASA Stereo observations of the coronal mass ejection of 1 Aug 2010. Bottom: Sun and its immediate surroundings (north at the top). Top: Views past the Earth and beyond.

27. Published by AAAS

29. Cartoon of a Coronal Mass Ejection and its Impact on the Earth’s Magnetosphere http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/outreach/cmeposter/movies

30. Magnetic storm – 10 January 1997 Space Plasma Physics Group & Advanced Visualization Lab., Univ. of Maryland http://www.spp.astro.umd.edu/mhd/jan_cloud.htm

31. This image goes back about 13/14 ths of the time to the big bang.

33. Discovery of Cosmic Microwave Background, 1965 Nobel Prize, 1978. Images taken from: http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov /universe/bb_tests_cmb. html

34. Variation from place to place on the sky is as much as about ± 0.004ºK. Image taken from: http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov /universe/bb_tests_cmb. html

35. Cosmic Background Explorer - 1992 Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe - 2001 CMB Temperature range =.0005K! Credit: The Internet Encyclopedia of Science

36. Diagram taken from: http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov /universe/bb_tests_cmb. html

37. The CMB bottom line. Velocity of our solar system through the universe equals 368 km/sec. Age of the universe is 13.75 billion years (since the big bang). The universe is made up of: 4% ordinary matter 23% dark matter 73% dark energy Oh, the adventure and wonder of space exploration!

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