1. Space History - recent

2. 1957 Russia launched Sputnik 1 & 2 http://www.universetoday.com/88035/sputnik-2/http://www.universetoday.com/78110/sputnik-one/ http://history.nasa.gov/sputnik/

3. 1958 USA launched a satellite http://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/edn-moments/4406141/1st-successful-US-orbit-satellite-launches--January-31--1958 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/explorer/facts/

4. 4/1961 Russia put 1 st man into space- Yuri Gagarin http://www.youtube.co m/watch?v=qQMZ- emCG-M http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/sts1/gagarin_anniversary.html http://www.businessinsider.com/yuri-gagarin-the-first-man-in-space-2011-4?op=1 http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/sts1/gagarin_anniversary.html Yuri Gagarin Video

5. Feb. 1962 1 st American in space- Alan Shepard http://www.whiteeagleaerospace.com/blog/2010/05/03/the-flight-of- freedom-7/ Alan Shepard Launch

6. 3/1965 Russia 1 st space walk http://centralastronomyclass. pbworks.com/w/page/15400 631/History%20of%20space %20programs%20in%20the %20United%20States%20an d%20Russia

7. 6/1965 US 1 st space walk http://www.nasa.gov/multim edia/imagegallery/image_f eature_1098.html First U.S. Space Walk

8. 7/21/1969 US 1 st Moon walk Apollo 11 Apollo 11 Apollo 11 & http://www.telegraph.co. uk/science/space/58514 35/Apollo-11-hoax-one- in-four-people-do-not- believe-in-moon- landing.html

9. 1977 Voyager 1 http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/timeline.html Still studies outer solar system and interstellar medium 18 billion km from the sun. Sending info. about magnetic field and amount of cosmic ray particles. 3/2013

10. Aug. 1977 Voyager 2 http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/timeline.html The primary mission was the exploration of Jupiter and Saturn. After making a string of discoveries there -- such as active volcanoes on Jupiter's moon Io and intricacies of Saturn's rings -- the mission was extended. Voyager 2 went on to explore Uranus and Neptune, and is still the only spacecraft to have visited those outer planets. The adventurers' current mission, the Voyager Interstellar Mission (VIM), will explore the outermost edge of the Sun's domain. And beyond

11. 1981 Columbia – 1 st Shuttle launched http://www.universetoday.co m/84384/when-was-the-first- space-shuttle-launched/

12. 1986 Challenger explodes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4JOjc DFtBE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Space_Shuttle_Challenger_ disaster http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/01/ch allenger_disaster_25_years_l.html

13. 1990 Hubble Space Telescope http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Space_Telescope http://hubblesite.o rg/gallery/album/ http://www.ins pi.net/best-of- hubble- telescope/slid eshow/ http://www.yo utube.com/w atch?v=- pA06Ck0eVs

14. Exploring Mars:1997-2013 and continuing… http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/mesur.html Mars Pathfinder Spirit 2004 Opportunity 2004 Curiosity 2012 (artist’s drawing) 1997

15. International Space Station Started with Skylab 1973- 1974 Russia’s Mir 1986-2001 ISS-16 countries contributed Finished in 2009…

16. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html Permanently orbits Earth. People can live there for years. International Space Station Researchers on Earth are using several experiments aboard the international space station to study health and safety issues, growing plants, studying health hazards from space radiation. experiments