By ike and Jimmy

1. History of Spacecraft Discoveries
By Ike Everard and Jimmy Green

2. 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

3. Project Mercury
• The Mercury 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

4. Project Gemini
• Project Gemini 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

5. 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

6. Skylab
• Sky Lab was 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

7. 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

8. Soyuz-tm-14
• The Soyuz mission 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

9. 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

10. Soyuz TMA-22
• The Soyuz 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

11. 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

12. VIDEO

13. NASA and ROSCOSMOS

14. Bibliography
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