SPACE EXPLORATION

1. Space
Exploration

2. Projects that led to man on the moon
■ Project Mercury 1961-1963
■ Project Gemini
■ Project Apollo

3. Project Mercury
■ The first U.S. program to put humans
in space
Project Mercury:
■ Orbit a human spacecraft around
Earth.
■ to investigate a person’s ability to
function in space.
■ Recover both the astronaut and
spacecraft safely.

4. Project Gemini
Tested equipment and mission
procedures and trained astronauts and
ground crews for future Apollo missions.
■ Test an astronaut’s ability to fly long
duration flights (14 days
■ Understand how a spacecraft could
rendezvous and dock with another
vehicle in Earth orbit
■ Perfect re-entry landing methods
■ Understand the effects of longer
spaceflights on astronauts.

5. Project Gemini

6. Project Apollo
■ Project Apollo- July
20, 1969 Apollo 11
landed on the moon
■ Saturn V that
launched Apollo 11

7. Project Apollo
● Landed the first humans on the
lunar surface and returned
them safely to Earth.
● Developed technology to meet
other national interests in space
● Conducted scientific exploration
of the Moon
● Developed humanity’s
capability to work in the lunar
environment.

8. Project Apollo
■ Neil Armstrong
was the first man
to walk on the
moon.
■ (July 20 1969)

9. Neil Armstrong
■ “That’s one step
for a man, one
giant leap for
mankind.”

10. Apollo 11- Edwin Aldrin
■ Edwin Aldrin was the
2nd man to walk on
the moon. He and
Armstrong explored
for 2 hours.
■

11. Skylab
■ Skylab was a space station
put up in 1973. In 1979 it
was abandoned and fell
back into earth’s atmosphere
and burned up
■ Observations of the Sun
were one of this space lab
program’s primary
achievements

12. Skylab Launch

13. Skylab Launch

14. Space Shuttle
■ A space shuttle is a
reusable spacecraft
that transports
astronauts, satellites,
and other materials to
and from space.

15. Space Shuttle
■ At launch, the space
shuttle orbiter stands
on end and is
connected to an
external liquid-fuel
tank and two solid-fuel
booster engines.

16. Space Shuttle
■ When the shuttle
reaches an altitude of
about 45 km, the
emptied solid-fuel
booster rockets drop
off and parachute back
to earth. They are
recovered and reused
again.

17. Space Shuttle
■ The larger liquid fuel tank eventually
separates and falls back to Earth. It is not
recovered.

18. Space Shuttle
■ Once the space
shuttle reaches
space, it orbits
Earth.

19. Space Shuttle Landing
■ At the end of a mission, the space shuttle
orbiter glides back to Earth and lands like
an airplane. The parachute slows it down.

20. Space Stations
■ A space station has
living quarters, work
and exercise space,
and all the equipment
and support systems
needed to live and
work in space.

21. Mir
■ Mir was a Soviet
space station.

22. International Space Station
■ International Space
Station serves as a
research lab for
several countries.
■ Permanent crew
■ Scientists on Earth
have almost instant
access to experiments
and can modify when
needed

23. Hubble Space Telescope
■ Is an optical telescope
that was put into
space in 1990 by the
space shuttle
Discovery.

24. Satellites
■ A satellite is any object that revolves
around another object.

25. Sputnik- 1st
Artificial Satellite

26. Important People
Yuri Gagarin
&
President Kennedy

27. Yuri Gagarin
■ In 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first
human in space.

28. President Kennedy
■ President Kennedy
called for the US to
put the first man on
the moon by the end
of the decade.

29. Alan Shepard
■ 1961- Alan Shepard
became 1st US citizen
in space
■ Was not on Apollo 13
because of an ear
infection
■ Apollo 14-oldest man on
moon (47)
■ Hit golf balls on moon

30. John Glenn
■ 1962- John Glenn
became the 1st US
citizen to orbit the
Earth