1. 2 AR Reading until 10:29

2. Student Planner May 5, 2015 Place this in the proper place Study for Astronomy Test next Wednesday You need planner, notes, pen/pencil, spacecraft WS Gemini 6 & 7 rendezvous, Dec. 1965

3. 2 End Planner Entries

4. 2 Gum hunting season open

5. Summary: We had a normal opening. We continued watching a NASA video on the Mercury project.

6. Answer the last class’s EQ which was: Essential Question: Why go to the moon?

7. Topic/Objective: Name: Gemini mission Class/Period: Date: May 6, 2015 Essential Question: Name one major advancement from the Gemini mission

8. Warm Up

9. 1. NASA is an acronym for: a) North American Space Agency b) National Aeronautics and Space Administration c) National Agency for Space and Aviation d) North American Society for Astronomy

10. 2. Today is the peak for the Eta Aquarids meteor shower (left over material from Halley’s Comet. This shower originates from the Star “Eta” in this constillation: a) Aquarius b) Leo c) Orion d) Gemini

11. 3. When looking at stars and planets, these do NOT twinkle.

12. 4. Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 is now in interstellar space and is the farthest man made object in space. It takes 18 hours for light to go from Earth to Voyager. To get from Earth to Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the sun, is 4.24 light years away. Since it takes 2 years to go 1 light hour, it would take Voyager over 17,000 years to reach the nearest star. What would you think we would need to do to visit a star system other than the Sun?

13. Answers

14. 1. NASA is an acronym for: a) North American Space Agency b) National Aeronautics and Space Administration c) National Agency for Space and Aviation d) North American Society for Astronomy

16. 2. Today is the peak for the Eta Aquarids meteor shower (left over material from Halley’s Comet. This shower originates from the Star “Eta” in this constillation: a) Aquarius b) Leo c) Orion d) Gemini

18. 3. When looking at stars and planets, these do NOT twinkle.

19. 3. When looking at stars and planets, these do NOT twinkle. Planets

20. 4. Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 is now in interstellar space and is the farthest man made object in space. It takes 18 hours for light to go from Earth to Voyager. To get from Earth to Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the sun, is 4.24 light years away. Since it takes 2 years to go 1 light hour, it would take Voyager over 17,000 years to reach the nearest star. What would you think we would need to do to visit a star system other than the Sun?

21. Today’s Homework Study vocabulary terms Study for Astronomy Unit test next week

22. Today Video on space exploration

23. Take notes on the video. You need to understand the different manned space programs - what each accomplished, how many astronauts in each capsule, and when they started and ended.

24. Watch this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDOLHClNTOI