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Solid-fuel rockets
One of the main types of rockets used to get spacecraft into space. -
Robert Goddard
Called ¨The Father of Modern Rocketry¨ -
Liquid-fuel rocket
Invented by Robert Goddard, is also one of the two main types of rockets used to get spacecraft into space. -
Wernher von Braun
The Germans made great advances with liquid-fueled rocketry during World War 2,under Wernher´s leadership. -
V-2 ballistic missile
Was built by German researches and is one of the first modern rockets. -
Sputnik 1
The first artificial object to orbit the earth. -
Sputnik 2
The first living creature to orbit the earth. -
Explorer 1
The first satellite of the United States -
Van Allen radiation belts
Large regions of solar wind particles trapped in the magnetosphere. -
Vostok 1
Made a single orbit around the earth -
Yuri Gagarin
The first person to travel in space. -
Alan Shepard
Became America´s first person in space with a fifteen.minute suborbital hop in the Freedon 7 Mercury spacecraft. -
John Glenn
The first American to orbit the earth. -
Valentina Tereshkova
The fisrt woman to fly to space, the pilot of Vostok 6. -
EVA
The first extra curricular activity was the launching of three cosmonauts aboard a single spacecraft. -
Gemini
A series of ten manned space flights -
Saturn V
A three-stage rockets launched spacecraft from the Earth´s surface to the moon. -
Apollo Program
Helped America to finally take the lead in the space race. -
Apollo 11
The fisrt mission to actually land a manned spacecraft to the moon. -
Neil Armstrong
The first human to set foot on another world. -
Skylab
United States fiirst space station -
Mir
The Soviet Union´s space station. -
International Space Station
Over fifteen nations were working together to build The International Space Station -
Yang Liwei
A Chinese astronaut that orbited the earth 14 times in his Shenzhou 5 spacecraft.
