The document discusses various ways humans explore and travel through space, including spacecraft that have visited planets and asteroids in our solar system like Mercury, Mars, and Pluto. It also describes telescopes like Hubble and Kepler that have revealed new insights by observing distant stars, galaxies, and exoplanets across the universe. The overall message is that through robotic space missions and astronomy, humans are able to travel throughout our solar system and deep into the cosmos.

1. Talk about Space
(Mrs. Manchester’s 3rd Grade
Science Class)
Dr. Patrick A. Stadter

2. All the Places We can Go!
Outer Space
Earth Orbit
Near-Space
Air
Land
Sea
Undersea
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3. Let’s go out into Space…
(But how? And where should we go?)
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4. How do you plan a weekend hike?
(or a space mission to Pluto?)
 Find out (the information you need)
 Choose a strategy
 Solve it
 Look back (check your work…does
your solution make sense)
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5. How do you plan a weekend hike?
(or a space mission to Pluto?)
 Find out (the information you need)
 Choose a strategy
 Solve it
 Look back (check your work…does your
solution make sense)
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6. From the Sun to Pluto – and Beyond
Sun
Solar Probe
Mercury Venus Earth Mars Asteroid Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto
and Comet
MagSat
MESSENGER Geosat MRO NEAR Voyager Voyager Voyager Voyager New
PolarBear Galileo Cassini Horizons
Hilat
GEOS-A New
` Ulysses
Grace Horizons
ACE
FUSE
STEREO JUNO
TIMED
MMS
MSX
NIMS
Tacsat 4
RBSP
Moon
Apollo 17 X = APL PI and/or Sensors
Chandrayaan-1 X = APL-Built + Sensors
6 LRO X = Pending

7. Or what if we wanted to go to the Sun?
Solar Probe
(launching in 6 years!)
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8. Going to Mercury
(on the MESSENGER spacecraft)
How did we get to Mercury?
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9. Getting to Mercury (on MESSENGER)
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10. Going to Mercury
(on the MESSENGER spacecraft)
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11. First Picture of Earth taken from Space (1967)
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12. We do a lot of things from Space near the Earth
TIMED
(with GPS on it
so it knows
TacSat-4 where it is!)
(for our Troops
to talk to each
other)
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13. Our Moon…
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14. NEAR (an asteroid) and our Moon
Near Earth
Asteroid Rendezvous
Chandrayaan-1 and
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
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15. On to the Outer Planets…
New Horizons
(Headed to Pluto…
and on to the Kuiper Belt!)
Cassini images
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16. New Horizons Jupiter Flyby on its way to Pluto
(Feb 07)
Jupiter and Io Io eruption
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17. Why Do We Look Out into Space?
(At the Stars and the Constellations)
Hubble Space
Telescope
Finds two galaxies (Arp87) crashing
in the constellation Leo the Lion
Star Betelgeuse in Orion
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18. We can all Time Travel
Looking Back in Time
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19. Why Do We Look Out into Space?
(At the Stars and the Constellations)
Looking back in time to Omega Centauri
near the constellation Centaurus
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20. Why Do We Look Out into Space?
(At the Stars and the Constellations)
Looking back in time to Omega Centauri
near the constellation Centaurus
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21. Why Do We Look Out into Space?
(At the Stars and the Constellations)
Butterfly Nebula – Birthplace of Planets
(near the constellation Scorpius)
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22. Why Do We Look Out into Space?
(At the Stars and the Constellations)
Kepler Space Telescope
Planet finder
15 planets in Sagittarius
15 new planets
in the constellation Sagittarius
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23. Why Do We Look Out into Space?
(At the Stars and the Constellations)
James Webb
Space Telescope
(coming soon!)
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24. One of my favorite pictures
(from the NEAR mission)
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25. Extra
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26. TiME – Sailing on a sea of Saturn’s Moon
Titan Mare Explorer
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