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Sputnik 1
The Sputnik 1 was the world’s first artificial satellite, it was the size of a beach ball and weighed only 83.6 or 183.9 pounds. But wasn't a manned mission. -
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Explorer 1
The Explorer 1 was the first spacecraft successfully launched by the United States. It had tools used to measure cosmic rays, micrometeorites, and its own temperature. -
Mercury Freedom 7
Mercury Freedom 7 was the first United States human spaceflight. It was piloted by astronaut Alan Shepard. It was the first manned flight of Project Mercury. The objective of this was to put an astronaut into orbit around the earth and return him safely. -
Gemini 3
Gemini 3 was the first crewed earth-orbiting spacecraft of the Gemini series. The primary objective of this launch was to demonstrate the crewed qualifications of the Gemini spacecraft including evaluation of the two-man Gemini design, the worldwide tracking network, the orbit attitude and maneuver system. -
Apollo 11
The objective of the Apollo 11 was to was to land men on the lunar surface and to return them safely to Earth.. It was manned by Neil Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. -
Viking 1
The Viking mars mission was performed by 2 spacecrafts, the Viking 1 and Viking 2. There main purpose was to be an orbiters or landers for mars. They traveled attached together for almost a year to reach mars’s orbit until they went there seperate ways. -
Voyager 1
The obkective of the Voyager was to extend the NASA exploration of the solar system beyond the bondaries of the outer plantes to the outer limits of the Sun. -
Columbia Space Shuttle
The Columbia Space Shuttle was manned by John W. Young and Robert L. Crippen. It was used to demonstrate safe launch into orbit and return of the orbiter and crew. It was also used to verify the vehicle orbiter, solid rocket boosters, and external tanks. -
Mars Pathfinder
The Mars Pathfinder mission featured NASA's first rover to explore the surface of the Red Planet. The mission also served as a demonstration of key technologies and concepts for use in future expeditions to Mars. -
International Space Statioin
It is a space station or a habitable satellite in low earth orbit. It is a modular structure whose first component was launched in 1998.It is now one of the largest artificial bodies in orbit. Yet it can often be seen at the appropriate time with the naked eye from Earth. -
Spirit
Spirit is equipped with a powerful set of tools to study a diverse collection of rocks and soils that may hold clues to past water activity on Mars. -
Opportunity
Same as its twin, spirit, its job was to search for and characterize a variety of rocks and soils that hold clues to past water activity. It mainly looed for samples that might include those that have minerals deposited by water-related processes such as precipitation, evaporation, sedimentary cementation or hydrothermal activity.
Determine the distribution and composition of minerals, rocks, and soils surrounding the landing sites. -
Kepler
Kepler was launched by NASA to seek information about if there were to be any other planets similar to earth. It was also in lookout for earth sized planets that move around stars that seem similar to our sun. -
Curiosity
The main scientific goal of the curiosity mission was to help determine whether Mars could ever have supported life, as well as determining the role of water, and to study the climate and geology of Mars.
