Space History - recent

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/

1958 USA launches (Explorer 1) 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/

4/1961 Russia put 1st man into space- Yuri Gagarin 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 http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/sts1/gagarin_anniversary.html Yuri Gagarin Video

May 5th, 1961 1st American in space- Alan Shepard http://www.whiteeagleaerospace.com/blog/2010/05/03/the-flight-of-freedom-7/ Alan Shepard Launch

3/1965 Russia 1st space walk http://centralastronomyclass.pbworks.com/w/page/15400631/History%20of%20space%20programs%20in%20the%20United%20States%20and%20Russia

6/1965 US 1st space walk http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1098.html First U.S. Space Walk

7/21/1969 US 1st Moon walk Apollo 11 Apollo 11 July 16th-24th /1969 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/5851435/Apollo-11-hoax-one-in-four-people-do-not-believe-in-moon-landing.html &

September,1977 Voyager 1 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 http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/timeline.html

Aug. 1977 Voyager 2 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 http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/timeline.html

1981 Columbia – 1st Shuttle launched http://www.universetoday.com/84384/when-was-the-first-space-shuttle-launched/ August 30, 1983 -STS-8. First African-American in Space

1986 Challenger explodes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4JOjcDFtBE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disaster http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/01/challenger_disaster_25_years_l.html

February 20th, 1986 Soviet Union launches space station Mir

1990 Hubble Space Telescope http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/ http://www.inspi.net/best-of-hubble-telescope/slideshow/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pA06Ck0eVs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Space_Telescope

*First Module of the ISS (International Space Station is Launched) July 4th, 1997 Mars Pathfinder- Lands on Mars and transmits pictures back to Earth November 20th, 1998 *First Module of the ISS (International Space Station is Launched) Opportunity 2004

February 1st, 2003 January 4th, 2004 August 4th, 2007 Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. Shuttle disintegrated upon Earth re-entry January 4th, 2004 *Spirit Rover– Lands on Mars August 4th, 2007 *Phoenix proble launched to Mars.

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

International Space Station Permanently orbits Earth. People can live there for years. 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. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html