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Sputnik 1
Sputnik 1 was the world’s first artificial satellite that successfully got sent to space. It was sent by the USSR and was the size of a beach ball with a diameter of 58 cm and 22.8 inches and 83.kg or 183.9 pounds. It was a great success and got the world’s attention and caught us off guard. -
Explorer 1
Explorer 1 was 203 cm or 80 inches and the width was 15.9 cm or 6.25 inches and weight 14 kilograms or 30.8 pounds .On May 23,1958 the signal ended when batteries died. And it burned the second time over the pacific ocean on March 31, 1970. -
mercury freedom 7
Alan B. Shepard, Jr. was on mercury freedom in May 5, 1961 when it first launches off. The objection of the mission was to see the male capabilities in a space environment. It was a successful mission in the end. -
gemini 3
Gemini 3 was a manned mission with a crew a back-up crew and a Capcom. On the original crew was Virgil I. Grissom as the commander and John W. Young as the pilot. On the back up crew was walter M. Schirra Jr. and Thomas P. Stafford. And the CapCom was L. Gordon Cooper as the cape and Roger B. Chaffee as the Houston. -
Apollo 11
The objective was of Apollo 11 was to perform a complete crewed lunar landing and return to earth. It was a manned mission and the crew was Neil Armstrong as the commander, Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. as the lunar module pilot, and Michael Collins as the command module pilot. But sadly Apollo 11 was not a successful mission and crash landed in the pacific ocean on July 24, 1969. -
Viking 1
On the seventh anniversary of Apollo 11 it was an unmanned mission and was the first successful probe to land on mars. It was launch on august 20, 1975 and on June 19, 1976 it arrived on mars. It landed in the Chryse planitia and set the first close-up picture of the rust color surface. -
Voyager 1
Voyager was the first man-made object to leave the solar system. On august 25, 2012 Voyager 1 made history crossing and was announced by NASA for the first time on a Thursday. And is 18.8 billion kilometers away from earth. -
Mars Pathfinder
Mars Pathfinder was a American spacecraft that landed on mars in 1997. It cost 15 million U.S. dollars to put this mission together. And sent its last transmission on September 27, 1997 it returned 2.3 billion bits of info more then 16,500 pictures, and 15 rock samples. -
International Space Station (ISS)
International Space Station (ISS) was a space station that was crewed with 6 people in 1998. It was an artificial satellite in a low orbit to earth. It weight 108.5 m the length is 78.8 m and was 20 m in height. -
spirit
Spirit is the twin to opportunity and was sent to mars and was active from 2004 to 2010. It’s last communication with earth was sent on march 22, 2010. And It’s mission was a planned 90 Martian solar days which to us is 92 earth days. -
opportunity
Opportunity was a twin to spirit and was sent three weeks later on the Meridiani Planum on the other side of the planet. Opportunity is still active to this day and already exceeded its planned 90 sol days. It survived dust- storms reached Endeavor Crater in 2011 the second landing site. -
Kepler
Kepler was a space telescope sent by NASA for a planned 3.5 years. But the need for data on the stars was longer then planed and expected to last until 2016. Sadly on May 11, 2013 there was a problem and was it threating to the continuation of the mission. -
Curiosity
Curiosity was a robotic rover that was exploring Gale Cater on mars. On August 6, 2012 the rover successfully landed on mars. But as discussed by mars exploration program MSL main goal is to see if mars could support life. -
Columbia Space Shuttle (first launch)
On April 2 ,1981 twenty years after Yuri Gagarin was the first human in space Columbia was sent on a test flight with a crew of two. John W. Young as the mission commander and Robert L. Crippen as the pilot. On the landing site at Kennedy LC-39A.
