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Sputnik/Mercury/Gemini Launched
These projects were created to go descover things in the atmosphere. The soviet Union ran and created all of the projects.Total years for all three of them last from 1957-1966 -
Venera Project
On Venera 3 the atmosphere destoyed it and was not able to return.This exploration was to explore Venus and it was run by the Soviet Union. Venera 10 was the first the first to send back pictures of venus -
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Space Exploration Timeline
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Mariner's First Launch
This was the very first launch of the Mariner mission -
Mariner took the first picture from a different planet
On this day the Mariner took its first picture from another planet -
Pioneer Program
This was the first space craft which got close to jupiter.There was 2 poineer space crafts. they both weighed 570 pounds (about). This date was the launch of the first pioneer. the second pioneer was launched on April 5, 1995 -
Mariner's Last Launch
On this day the Mariner ended its launch and finished its journey -
Viking
On this day the viking sspace craft launched. It's purpose was to take picture of mars. It took 26,000 pictures of mars. It cost 1 million dollars on building it -
Voyager Probes
The Voyager consisted of 2 Probes -
Voyager 2
The Voyager 2 probe launched off on this day -
Voyager 1
The voyager 1 launched off into space on this day -
Viking entered orbit, and lost connection
Entered orbit on June 19,1979 -
Venera Continued
The exploration last from 1961-1985 which was a total of 24 years -
Space Shuttles(challanger)
On this day one of the space shuttles the challanger lifted off into to space. 5- 10 million dollars for the construction.there was a total of 6 landings, unfortunetly about 400 people died on the explorations -
Magellan
The Magellan project took pictures of Venus's surface. It convered 98% of it's surface and the missions duration was 4 years and two months. it cost 639 million dollars -
Galilieo Launched
The Galileo craft lasted six years in space. the total cost was 1.6 billion dollars. Both the U.S and Germany were involed in the mission -
Hubble Launching
The hubble space craft delayed for 4 years until on April 24, 1990 the Hubble space craft launched off into space. Telescopes were added on to the craft in 1962, 1965, and 1969 -
Magellan Lost connection
On august 10 1990 Magellan entered the orbital insertion of Venus -
N.E.A.R's First Launch
On this day the N.E.A.R project launched for its first exploration -
N.E.A.R Fly-By Mission
Before going on its quest, N.E.A.R. took a orbit around the Earth -
Cassini
This was the day of the Cassini Probe when it blasted to space -
Galileo Landed
December 16, 1997 was the end of the primary two years science mission and the start of Galileo Europa Mission -
N.E.A.R Lost Contact
On this day the craft lost connection with the USA -
Genesis Launching
The craft took off on a Delta 7326 jet. It cost $164 million.The parachut did not deploy when coming down from space -
Curiosity Rover
The curiosity started to create but not until of 2011 was when it launched. It had a total of 7 and a half years of its creation. It landed on August 2, 2012 -
Cassini Probe Landed
This is the day when the Cassini Probe landed -
Cassini's Extended Mission
This mission exteneded to February of 2017 -
Hubble continue
The Hubble craft has been active for 22 years and is active to this day