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Space Exploration

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    Galileo

    NASA was invloved. It cost 1.6 billion. This happened in America and Europe. it was created to study jupiter.
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    Sputnick/Mercury/Gemini

    This happened in Moscow (Sputnick) and in the U.S. (Mercury&Gemini). These missions proved that astronuats can stay in space for more than one day. They also were devolped to observe humans in space and they wanted to beat the U.S. inspace races.
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    The Pioneer Program

    the pioneer program was created by NASA. It was a series of unmanned spacecrafts. It was created to beat the Soviet Union in a space race.
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    Mariner Program

    NASA was involved. It cost 554 million dollars. it was made to capture pictures of mars. It launched from nasa headquarters.
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    Venera Probes

    The soviet union created it. It was created toexplore venus. 3 out of 16 probes failed.
  • Space Station

    Russia, Canada, Japan, and NASA were involved. Russia luanched the first one. There are still space shuttles in space today.
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    Viking Probes

    James Martin and NASA were involved. they were created to explore mars. it lost signal on Nov. 13 1982. It landed on mars on June 19, 1976.
  • Voyager Probes

    The Voyager Ptobes were built to explore space beyond the sun. About 11,000 hours were put into it. The voager is still out in space today. They arrived on...
    Saturn- August 26, 1981
    Uranus- January 24th, 1989
    Neptune- August 24th, 1989
    Jupiter- July 9th, 1979
    NASA was invloved.
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    Space Shuttle

    NASA was the creator. it cost 1.7 billion. There were 5 shuttes and it went on over 100 missions.
  • Hubble Space Telescope

    The hubble wqas created by NASA and the European Space Agency. It cost $1.5 million. It was created to get pictures of planets, stars, and galaxies. It also discovered dark energy.
    It is still in space today. It has taken about 570,000 pictures.
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    Magellan Spacecraft

    NASA and JPL were involved. It was created to explore and learn about Venus. It was also supposed to map venus.
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    N.E.A.R Mission

    The N.E.A.R mission was created to study eros. it was NASA's first discovery mission. It was built at John hopkins university. It entered orbit of Eros on Ferbuary 14th, 2000.
  • Cassini Mission

    It was created by NASA, European Space Agency, and the Italian Space Agency. it cost 3.3 billion and it was used to study saturn and saturns moon titan. It will go to 2017.
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    The Genesis Spcaecraft

    The Genesis Spacecraft was built to collect solar wind, The used the samples they collected and compared them. It was the first spacecraft to collect solar wind. it cost $264 million. It crashed landed September 8th, 2004. NASA was involved.
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    Mars Rover

    NASA was involved. It was created to see if there was life or water on mars. It costs 820 million dollars.