2. RACE TO SPACE Lynne H. Hehr Center for Mathematics and Science Education Arkansas NASA Educator Resource Center University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

3. All it took was...

4. a little tissue paper... a little glue... and...

5. ... a lot of WANT TO!

6. Man With Wings ?

7. Kites 202 BC

8. Flight by Parachute

9. Ornithopter 1490

10. Montgolfier Balloon 1783

11. First US Hot Air Balloon Flight 1793

12. Balloons In Civil War 1860s

13. The First Glider: “Boy Carrier” 1849

14. Civil War Balloons

15. First “clear” Aerial Image 1860

16. First Human Glider 1891

17. Birds Eye View 1903

18. Are we there yet?

19. Wright Brothers Take Off 1903

20. First Open Cockpit Photographs World War I

21. 1914

22. Goddard Rocket 1926

23. Trans-Atlantic Flight 1927

24. Second Trans-Atlantic Flight 1932

25. First High Altitude Balloon 1936

26. 1977

27. Commercial Airplanes

28. First U2 Spy Plane 1955

29. Balloon Facts 1960 – world high altitude parachute jump 1988 – solo world record of greatest height ever 1999 – first around the world flight

30. Balloon Uses Today Study astronomy, magnetic fields, cosmic dust, biology Warfare Logging operations – for hauling logs Fun and Sports Weather forecasting War against drug traffic

31. Balloon Research

32. Sputnik 1957

33. First Space Probe 1959

34. First US Weather Satellite 1960

35. Saturn Rocket 1961

36. Mercury 1961

37. Mercury 1962

38. Gemini

39. First Space Walk 1965

40. What would you be feeling?

41. Apollo 1969

42. Skylab 1973

43. Apollo-Soyuz 1975

44. First Shuttle Mission 1981

45. Shuttle EVA

46. First Hubble Telescope Launch 1990

47. International Space Station 2001 & beyond

48. Where do YOU want to go? ?