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2. • WHY DO WE EXPLORE
SPACE?
• HISTORY OF SPACE SHIPS
AND SHUTTLES
• TODAY AND FUTURE
3. Why Do We Explore Space?
• Because it’s there
• Quest for knowledge
• Learn about what is around us – dangers,
benefits, natural resources
- Reap benefits of what’s around
- Reap benefits of preparing for /
undertaking exploration itself –
technology and techniques
- Survival
• Quest for understanding - learn about
ourselves and our place in the universe
5. JULES VERNE
• French author who
pioneered the science fiction
genre
• He wrote about
space, air, and
underwater travels
1828 - 1905
before air travel
and practical
submarines were
invented
6. KONSTANTIN TSIOLKOVSKY
• Imperial Russian and Soviet
rocket scientist and pioneer
of the astronautic theory
• Known for his rocket equation
• His works later inspired leading
Soviet rocket engineers such as 1857 -1935
Sergey Korolyov and Valentin Glushko and
contributed to the success of the Soviet space
program.
7. WERNER VON BRAUN
• German-American rocket
scientist, aerospace engineer,
space architect
• During World War II, led the
V-2 project
• Led the U.S. Army team that
1912 - 1977 launched Explorer-I, first U.S. satellite
• Built the Saturn V booster that carried
Apollo to the Moon
8. SERGEY KOROLEV
• Soviet rocket engineer and designer
• Father of the Russian space
program
• In the early 1930s he met
Tsiolkovsky and devoted himself
to spaceflight
1907 – 1966
12. EXPLORER I
February 1, 1958
The first artificial satellite of USA
13. NASA
On July 29, 1958 The National Aeronautics
and Space Administration (NASA) was
established in USA
14. ANIMALS WENT FIRST
The Soviet Union launched a
dog named Laika.
The dog died in space 10 days
later.
Americans used
chimpanzees &
monkeys: Enos, Ham, &
Sam
15. FIRST MAN IN SPACE
Yuri Gararin
Yuri Gararin was the first human to
journey into outer space, when his
Vostok spacecraft completed an
orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961.
1934-1968
16. FIRST AMERICAN MAN IN SPACE
Alan Shepard
Alan Shepard NASA astronaut
who in 1961 became the
second person, and the first
American, to travel into space
with spacecraft Freedom 7
1923-1998
17. FIRST WOMAN IN SPACE
Valentina Tereshkova
Valentina Tereshkova is a retired
Soviet cosmonaut and the first
woman to have flown in space in
spacecraft Vostok 6
1937
18. GOAL OF USA
On May 25, 1961 John Kennedy announced the goal of
landing a man on the Moon in the speech to a Joint
Session of Congress
19. APOLLO MISSIONS
The Apollo missions were a series
of space missions flown by NASA
between 1961 and 1975. They
culminated with a series of
manned Moon landings between
1969 and 1972.
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that
landed the first humans, Americans
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, on
the Moon on July 20, 1969.
Since Apollo missions NASA has launched 135 Space
shuttles and space shuttle programs.
20.
21. HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a space
telescope that was carried into orbit by a
Space Shuttle in 1990 and remains in
operation.
24. EXPLORATION GOALS FOR TODAY
• Study Earth from Space to
advance scientific understanding
and meet societal needs
• Improve prediction of
climate, weather, and natural
hazards
• Discover the origin, structure, evolution, and destiny of
our universe and search for Earth-like planets
• What happened during the Big Bang? How were stars and
galaxies created? What happens at the edge of a black
hole?