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Shocking News
United State was shocked when the Soviet Union launch the first satellite. The satellite was called Sputnik it was a small spacecraft . -
The Birth of NASA
President Eisnhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act which stand for (NASA). -
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First Monkeys in Space
Able and Miss Baker were the first monkeys to survive into space. they aboard a Jupiter rocket and flew 360 miles. The capsule landed 1700 miles from Space Missile Center in Florida. They were recoved successfully. -
TIROS
TIROS was useful to study Earth. TORIS was development for meteorological satellite. It also accurate weather forecasts based on date. -
First American
John Glenn became the frist American to orbit the Earth making 3 orbits in his Friendship 7 Mercury spacecraft. Glenn spent 4hours and 56 minutes. -
Spacewalk
The secord piloted gemini mision, Gemini IV. Stayed aloft for 4 days and performed the first EVA or spacewalk by an American. He was awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor. -
Apollo
During a simulation Aboard Apollo on the launch pad aa flash fire broke out in the pure oxygen. Atmosphere of the capsule and flames engulfed the capsule. -
Apollo 13
56 hours into the flight of Apollo 13. The oxygen tank in the service module ruptured and damaged. All crew members returned safely to Earth. -
Viking
Viking 1 was launch from Kennedy Space Center. On the trip to Mars. Its landed there on 20 Jul. Viking 2 was launch to Mars on 9-3 Sep. 1976 -
NASA First Launch
It stared with the STS-1 on April 12. John Young and Robeert Crippen the astronauts launch that morning in Columbia. As NASA was watched with hopes and parade the astronauts were in space. -
American Women
Sallly K. Ride flew on the STS-7 mission and became the first American Women to fly in Space. This pictured on the space Shuttle Challenger middeck during the STS-7 mission. -
African American
Guion S. Bluford was a mission specialist on th Space Shuttle Challenger and became the first African American astronaut. -
Space Shuttle
Space Shuttle Columbia carried the First non-u.s astronaut. Ulf Merbold of West Germany into space. Colubia also transported Spacelab 1 which was the first laboratory in space. -
Space Shuttle Challenger
The Space Shuttle Challenger was destroyed and its sven crew members were lost. An explosion occured 73 seconds in to the flight as a result of a leak in one of two Solid Rocket Boosters that ignitd the main liquid fuel tank. -
Mission to Venus
The magellan Mission to Venus began Following launch on STS- 30. It arrived at Venus in Sept. 1990 and using radar mapped 99% of the surface at high resolution. -
Space Shuttle Endeavour
Space Shuttle Endeavour Had a high successful mission repairing te optics of the Hubble Space Telescope and the astronauts performed routine servicing on the orbiting observatory. -
Life on Mars
NASA announced that a team of its scientists had uncovered evidence proof that life may have once existed on Mars. -
Expedition
Expendition One of the international Space Station Launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazkhstan with astronaut William M. Shepherd and cosmonauts Yuri Pavolich Gidzenko and Sergi K. Kiralev aboard. -
Rovers
NASA successfully landed 2 Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and Opportunity on the surface of Mars in the span of 3 week. The missions was to search for and characterize a wide rock and soil that hold clues of past water activity on Mars. -
Journey
7 years 2billion miles the Classini Hugens spacecraft became the first spacecraft to go into orbit around Saturn. It was launch from Cape Canaceral Florida on 15 Oct. 1997 -
STS-114
The Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-114) launch successfully into orbit. NASA's first return to human spaceflight after the Columbia tragedy. -
AIM
50 miles abov the ground Earth's highest clouds membrane at the edge of the Atmosphere. In 2007 NASA launch (AIM) to study these mysterious Polar Mesospheric Clouds.These clouds are being seen at lower latitude more often. -
Plans to visit the Sun
Astronomers Has Studied the Sun from afar. NASA has decided to go there. The mission want to be great heat resistant spacecraft. -
Flash of Light from TITAN
NASA spacecraft has photographed a flash of sunlight reflecting from a lake on Saturn's moon Titan.The reflection is also know as a specular reflection. -
The Youngest Black Hole
Astronomers using NASA X-ray have found evidence of the youngest black holes. The black hole is 50 million light years from Earth. The black hole being fed either by material falling into it. -
Sun Steals Comets From Other Stars
Our sun snatched comets from stars near by. Hal Levison a scientist believes thievery accounts for most of the comet at the edge of our solar system. -
Sign of Ancient Water
NASA's Mars rover has found bright veins of a mineral deposited by water near the rim. The vein examined closelyit about the width of a human thumb. -
Belt Storm
The two doughnut shaped regions around Earth are filled with killer electrons. Plasma waves and electrical currents dangerous to human. NASA launch 2 spacecraft directly into the radiation belts and they plan to stay a while. -
Saturn's Rings
NASA's spacecraft has provided the first direct evidence of small meteooids crashinh into Saturn's rings. Breaking into a rubble turning into a streams of rubble. Astronomers have been able to observe impact as it occur. -
Earth Size Planet found
NASA has announced the frist ever discovery of an Earth size planet that could hold water like Earth. NASA also saying that it alike it met hold life like we do on planet Earth.
