1. Space technology Objectives
Discuss the uses of the various types of artificial satellites
Explain how the space shuttle and laboratories in space are used by scientist
Appreciate the importance of space exploration.

2. Exploring the moon
ON OCTOBER 4, 1957, A SOVIET ROCKET LAUNCHED SPUTNIK 1 INTO ORBIT AROUND EARTH.
The Ussr dominated the space exploration until 1961, they sent sputnik 2 together with laika.
On January 31, 1958, united states launched the spacecraft, explorer 1.
Explorer 1 discovered magnetic radiation belts around earth called van allen radiation belts.
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 

4. National astronautics and space administration was created
In 1959, the USSR launched Luna 1, the first spacecraft to leave the Earth’s gravity.
Followed by Luna 2, the first spacecraft that impact the moon and the first moon junk.
In the same year, Luna 3 was launched and circled the moon.

6. On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin aboard Vostok 1 to travel in space and made him the first man to travel in space.
Same year, USSR launched Venera 1 to fly Venus, marking the first interplanetary probe.
Ranger 7, the first US unmanned spacecraft landed on July 28, 1964, followed by the Surveyor.

8. Apollo Missions Mission Astronauts Dates of Lunar Land
Walked on the Moon
Command Module Pilots 11
Neil Armstrong/Edwin Aldrin Jr
Michael Collins
July 24,1969 12
Charles Conrad/Alan Bean
Richard Gordon
November 24, 1969 14
Alan Shepard Jr/ Edgar Mitchell
Stuart Roosa
February 9, 1971 15
David Scott/ James Irwin
Alfred Worden
August 7, 1971 16
John Young/Charles Duke
Tomas Mattingly
April 27, 1972 17
Eugene Cernan/Harrison Schmitt
Ronald Evans
December 19, 1972

10. Create a timeline showing how humans explore the moon.