1. February 14, 2009 Afternoon Session

2. Sputnik

3.  1957, First artificial satellite “Sputnik”  “friendly traveler”

4.  1957, First living creature in space Dog “Laika”—Sputnik 2

5.  1959, First spacecraft to vicinity of moon “Luna”

6.  First person in space, 12 Apr. 1961 Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin Vostok 1

7.  June 1963, First woman in space Valentina Tereshkova Vostok 6

8.  1965, First space walk (EVA) Alexei Leonov, “Voskhod 2”

9.  1971, First space station “Salyut 1”

10.  Sputnik 1, Oct. 4, 1957  Sputnik 2, Nov. 3, 1957  Luna 3, Oct. 4, 1959  Yuri Gagarin, April 12, 1961  Valentina Tereshkova, June 14, 1963  Leonov EVA, March 18, 1965  Salyut I, April 1971

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12. Konstantin Tsiolkovskii Father of Cosmonautics, 1857-1935 Group for the Study of Reaction Motion—GIRD, 1931 Soviet rocket designs, 1946-1953

13. Dr. Robert Goddard, 1882-1945

18. WHY WAS THE USSR FIRST??

19. Soviet R-7 (SS-6) ICBM Korolev

23. Dr. Edward Teller: “Father of the Hydrogen Bomb” Stanislas Ulam

24.  Lightweight thermonuclear warhead

25. WW2 German V-2 US Redstone R-7 Soviet ICBMs

26. Nikita Khrushchev

29. 1957 International Geophysical Year (IGY)

30. Jupiter RocketWernher von Braun

31. Viking Rocket Vanguard Satellite

34. U.S. spy photo of Soviet airfield, early 1960s

35. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952-1960

36.  Coined term “military-industrial complex”  Threatened democracy

37. National Reconnaissance Office Discoverer satellites “Keyholes” Top-secret “Corona” Program (Central Intelligence Agency)

38. “Discoverer” Keyhole Camera platform

39. U-2 Spyplane

41. Eisenhower’s Measured Response to Sputnik

42. Flopnik!! Dec. 1957 Attempt to launch Vanguard satellite

43. Explorer 1: first U.S. satellite to orbit 31 Jan. 1958

45. KennedyNixon

46. “Symbols of the Cold War”

47.  Wanted America’s space program to be peaceful, research-oriented  Not to be controlled or fought over by the military  Selected NACA as the nucleus

50.  James E. Webb  NASA Administrator, 1961-1968  JFK appointment  Former director, Bureau of the Budget

51.  Robert Gilruth, head of NASA’s Space Task Group  Future director of the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston (later named Johnson Space Center)  Accomplished aeronautical engineer

53.  Life magazine editor Hugh Sidey on JFK

54.  Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin  Vostok 1  April 12, 1961  One complete orbit

57.  JFK’s science adviser  Director of MIT’s Radiation Laboratory, 1952- 1961  MIT President, 1971- 1980  No fan of the Apollo program

59.  May 5, 1961  Astronaut Alan B. Shepard  15-minute suborbital flight

60.  Five more flights, to include John Glenn’s first orbital flight  Gemini Program Rendezvous and Docking Long-duration flight Extra-vehicular activity  Apollo Saturn V rocket Lunar lander

61.  Geraldine “Jerrie” Cobb  1963 Congressional Hearings