Science Missions Timeline

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  • Sputnik- mercury- Gemini

    • October 4th 1957 Size of a beach ball,
    • First artificial satellite,
    • Sam and ham, and Eons were monkeys who were sent to mercury and safely back so now we know that it is safe for humans to go to mercury. 1280 million dollars

  • Venera space probes-

    • Soviet union created it
    • largest effort to study a planet
    • 1961- 1981.

  • mariner

    553 million dollars
    investigate mars, venus, and mercury

  • Pioneer space program

    • NASA created it,
    • Air force helped launch
    • around 3 billion dollars for all the probes
    • un manned missions
    • only used for exploring other planets,
    • 1965 first probe to be successful

  • Skylab Space Station

    manned mission

  • Viking Probe #2

    Soil experiments on mars- cost 1 billion U.S dollars
    • Landed on the dark spots on mars.

  • Viking Probe #1

    • Soil experiments on mars- cost 1 billion U.S dollars
    • Landed on the dark spots on mars.

  • space shuttles

    • 130 flights, carried over 350 people into space.
    • 1.2 billion dollars for each of the 6 probes.

  • MIIR Space Station

    manned mission to see how it would be to live in space.

  • magellan

    • Made to orbit Venus, or 4 years gotten pictures of 95% of Venus, 551 million, map the planet of Venus, Made up of metal scraps from other missions.

  • Hubble Space Telescope

    it has been orbiting the earth and taking pictures of deep space for 22 years and still going

  • galileo space craft

    • Unmanned NASA mission
    • 1.6 billion dollars
    • Launched December 4th 1995,
    • End of mission September 12th 2003.
    • Returned 14,387 pictures

  • N.E.A.R missions

    • Near earth asteroid rendezvous
    • 224 million dollars
    • Mapping the route to Eros,
    • Launched February 17, 1996

  • Voager probe #2

    cost 250 million dollars

  • Voyager probe #1

    250 million dollars.

  • genisis spacecraft

    • 1997- 2007 crash landed in Utah on September 7, 2004

  • Cassini missions

    • cost 3.27 billion dollars
    • getting information about Saturn
    • currently orbiting Saturn
    • launched on October 1997

  • international space missions

    cost 150 billion dollars
    manned missions