Space Travel

Space Travel

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  Space Travel CristalLocke
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  First Dog inSpace Laika was the first dog sent into orbit around the Earth. Sputnik 2, Russian, November 3, 1957 Laika was originally thought to have survived in Earth orbit for four days, dying in space when the batteries to the cabin over-heated. In 2002, we realized that Laika died 5 to 7 hours into the flight, from overheating and stress.
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  Other Dogs December22, 1960 the third stage of the SL-3 rocket failed, and the orbital launch was aborted Damka and Krasavka December 1, 1960 died when re-entering the Earth's atmosphere at the wrong angle and burned up Pchelka and Mushka August 19, 1960 Recovered. Orbited 18 times. Strelka , Belka , 40 mice, 2 rats and a number of plants July 28, 1960 died during a test flight Lisichka and Bars
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  More Dogs Chernushka. a few mice and a guinea pig - launched March 9, 1961. Zvezdochka - launched on March 25, 1961 and orbited once in final preparation for the Vostok 1 mission. Verterok and Ugolyok were launched on February 22, 1966, in the satellite Kosmos 110. This was a 22-day mission.
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  Commemorative Stamps
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  Monkeynauts Gordo thesquirrel monkey. December 13, 1958. Drowned in the Atlantic Ocean when the flotation device on the nose cone failed and it sank. Able and Baker, rhesus and squirrel monkey. May 28, 1959. Successful.
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  First Cosmonaut ColonelYuri Alexeyevich Gagarin March 9,1934 - March 27, 1968 Soviet human in space Gagarin piloted the Vostok 1 mission which launched April 12, 1961. His flight lasted 108 minutes and orbited the Earth once. The spacecraft was recovered later that day in the Saratov region of the Soviet Union.
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  First Woman CosmonautColonel-Engineer Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (1937- ) Soviet woman in space She was on the Vostok 5 mission which launched on June 16, 1963, and orbited the Earth 48 times. The flight lasted 2.95 days. The spacecraft was recovered on June 19, 1963, in the Soviet Union
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  First American inSpace Alan B. Shepard Jr. (1923-1998) This astronaut briefly flew into space on May 5, 1961, in Freedom 7, a Mercury space capsule. The capsule splashed down at sea and was retrieved by helicopter.
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  First American Womanin Space Sally Kristen Ride ( May 26, 1951- ) Dr. Ride's first trip into space was aboard NASA's space shuttle Challenger (STS-7) in 1983 (June 18-June 24). Her second (and last) space flight was the eight-day Challenger (STS 41-G) mission (in October, 1984).
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  First Person toWalk on Moon Neil Alden Armstrong (1930- ) Apollo 11 mission, which took off on July 16, 1969. Armstrong and Edwin E. (Buzz) Aldrin, Jr., landed on the moon on July 20, 1969
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  First Teacher Chosenfor Space Sharon Christa Corrigan McAuliffe (1948-1986) NASA's Space Shuttle Challenger Mission 51-L exploded only 73 seconds after its launch on the morning of January 28, 1986.
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  Challenger Accident 1986
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  First African AmericanWoman Mae C. Jemison (October 17, 1956 - ) Space Shuttle Endeavor (STS-47, Spacelab-J) as the Mission Specialist; the mission lifted off on September 12, 1992 and landed on September 20, 1992.
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  First Space StationSalyut 1 Launched on April 19, 1971 from Baikonur. 13.1 meters long and about 4.2 meters across
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  International Space StationUnited States Russia Japan Europe Canada Italy Brazil
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  Future Space Stations
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  Foolish Humans! OrsonWelles – The War of the Worlds – 1958
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