Space

By colin james

  • Sputnik, Mercury and Gemini

    Sputnik 1 was launched

  • pioneer program

    The program started
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    Vanera probes

    started and finished
    JUne 12th, 1967 vanera 4 was the first probe to record data from the atmosphere
    Vanera 13 Oct. 30th 1931 it was the first probe to get a colored image of Venus
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    Mariner program

    7/10 were succesful
    wanted to investigate mars or venus
    Mariner 9 is still working

  • Viking Probes

    NASA funded the mission and created the Viking. and the program started

  • Sputnik, Mercury, and Gemini

    there was a 2 man space craft. This project created the space race

  • Space stations

    Salyut 1 was the first space station
    The international space station in 1998 and was between Us, Japan, Canada and other countries.
    cost 150 billion dollars

  • Viking probes

    The first probe arrived to Mars.

  • Voyager

    voyager 2 was launched
    there were two missions
    and they are predicted to go until 2020

  • Voyager

    they use the sun's magnetic field to power
    NASA and ESA
    to 11 years to construct
    Europe and U.S. launched in U.S.
    travels 5 miles per second

  • SPace shuttles

    first launch
    NASA funded it
    made to take astronauts out of Earth's atmosphere
    launched in the U.S.

  • Space stations

    Mir was launched and was a space station

  • Magellan

    luaunched N.A.S.A. and Apollo
    was supposed To get an accurate account on Venus and how the planet worked.

  • Galileo

    the mission started. Galileo was the first spacecraft to measure jupiter’s atmosphere and to fly past an asteroid. costed 1.6 billion dollars

  • Magellan

    arrived and took 1 year to reach Venus. U.S. wasnted to beat the Soviet Union

  • Galileo

    last mission occured
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    NEAR Mission

    it was launched
    connection was lost
    NASA
    160,000 pictures
    150-250 million dollars
    wanted to explore erros
    used x-ray/gamma ray
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    Cassini mission

    started and planned completion
    ASA ESA ASI
    was a Venus flyby
    3.3 billion dollars
    launched in U.S.
    wanted to learn more about Saturn and its moons

  • Pioneer program

    The program finished. Eash of the probes had their own goal to study the outside planets

  • Genesis

    launched on this date. was to answer questions about the sun and the galaxy. N.A.S.A. cost 164 million dollars

  • Mars Rover

    Spirit was launched
    the two had used two separate rockets the alignment had shifted making the distance longer

  • Mars Rover

    opportunity was launched. purpose was to search the history of water on Mars

  • Genesis

    program finished

  • SPace shuttles

    last flight
    wanted to send more astronauts to space