History of spacecraft discoveries

History of spacecraft discoveries

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  History of SpacecraftDiscoveries By Ike Everard and Jimmy Green
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  Vostok-1 • A Russian mission • It carried the first man to space, Yuri Gagarin • The flight lasted 1 hour and 48 minutes • It launched on April 12, 1961 • It was the first manned orbital flight • Gagarin never flew another rocket • Gagarin died in 1968 on march 27
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  Project Mercury • TheMercury rockets were aimed at getting the first man in space • The program ran from 1959-1963 • There were 20 unmanned launches followed by 4 manned launches • The early planning was done by NACA • The actual mission was carried out by NASA • The name has no relation to the planet Mercury
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  Project Gemini • ProjectGemini was the second American spaceflight program • The program had 10 manned launches from 1965-1966 • The goal of project Gemini was to develop techniques for the upcoming Apollo missions • All of the launches for the Gemini program took place at Cape Canaveral using a Titan 2 GLV launch vehicle
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  The Apollo rockets •The Apollo 11 mission was the first to land on the moon • The first Apollo mission killed the entire crew In a pre-flight test • The Apollo program ran from 1961-1972 • The Apollo program came after the Mercury and Gemini programs
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  Skylab • Sky Labwas the first US space station • It was launched by an unmanned Saturn V rocket • It included a workshop and a solar observatory above others • Sky Lab orbited earth from 1973-1979 • There were two docking ports • It was damaged during launch
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  Sky Lab 2 •This was the first manned mission to the Sky Lab • The Sky Lab was the first US space station • Even though the patch reads “Sky Lab 1” the mission is actually Sky Lab 2 • The Saturn IB rocket carried 3 crew to the station • The crew were the first to visit a space station and come back alive
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  Soyuz-tm-14 • The Soyuzmission tm-14 went to the Russian space station, the MIR • The launch was in 1992 on march 17th • The mission lasted 145 days 7 hours • It carried 2 Russian, 1 French, and one German Cosmonaut • It landed on August tenth, 1992
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  The Space Shuttle •The Space Shuttle was the first reusable rocket NASA made, it was also our most recent space flight • The Space Shuttle flew many important missions to the ISS • The Shuttle also delivered the Hubble space telescope • The Program ran from 1981-2010 and was the most successful space program yet
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  Soyuz TMA-22 • TheSoyuz TMA-22 mission is on its way back from the ISS • It is projected to land on April 27th 2012 • It is bringing ISS Mission crew 29 to the ISS more data when it lands
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  ISS • It is the ninth space station in orbit • It is a modular structure • The first module was launched in 1998 • You can see it without a telescope • It is in low earth orbit • It has funding through 2020 • There is a solar array on it • There is a Russian side and a US side
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  NASA and ROSCOSMOS
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