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Catastrophic rocket
killed 14 people in the explosion inside of the shuttle -
X program
the us X plane programs began with the rocket power x-1, the first air plane to break the sound barrier and has involved to include over 50 difffernet major research designs -
Albert 1
A rhesus monkey called Albert 1 became the first monkey launched into space on board a US-launched V2 rocket -
Mercury
Mercury was the first space flight program of the US running from 1958 - 1963 and early highlight of the space race its goals were to put man into earths orbit and return in safely before the soviet union -
Sputnik
it was the first launch to space it orbited the earth on its elliptical path -
Laika
the first actual animal in space was a dog named Laika launched on board the Soviet Sputnik 2 spacecraft -
Explorer 1
first successful american satellite launched by the US army ballistic missle agency; it discovered radition nelts around earth -
Last flight of the Mercury
the last voyage the mercury ever took was in 1963 -
Gemini
19 launches of Gemini between 1965 and 1966 -
Ed white
First american to walk in space -
Apollo 1
tragedy struck on the launch pad at Cape Kennedy during the pre-flight test for Apollo 204 -
Neil Armstrong
first man on the moon -
Landed on the moon
Apollo 11 blasted off. four days after Armstrong and Aldrin landed on the moon in the lunar module -
Apollo Soyuz
Test project for NASA -
Skylab
Skylab was Americans first ever experimental space station launched in 1973 and soon hosted its first ever crew -
Aquarius
launched June 10, 2011 and ended June 8 2015 , it was apart of a power altitude system -
sally ride
astronaunt sally k ride became the frst american women in space lifting off space shuttle, challenger -
Guy blyford
Astronaut guy became the 1st African american in space -
Challenger Failure
Broke apart in 73 seconds into its flight leading to deaths of 7 crew members -
Magellan
named after a 16th century Portuguese explorer, it collects radar imaged of earth -
FUSE
it went into space with the earth atmosphere -
ACE rocket
Called the Advanced Composition Explorer it observes partials of solar interstellar and galactic origins scanning the energy range from solar winds ions to galactic cosmic ray nuclei -
CHAMP rocket
launched with Russians COSMOS launch vehicle, it was generated for the first time simultaneously highly precise gravity and magnetic feild meausurements over a 10 year period -
Aqua Satellite
major international satellitel centered at NASA -
Columbia disaster
the space shuttle disintegrated over Texas and Louisiana as it reentered earths atmosphere killing all crew members -
AIM rocket
The AIM went into space to find out what was causing a icy membrane on Earths atmosphere
