Space - The Final Frontier

Page
3

Slide 21

Explorer 1

Explorer project – 4 months after Sputnik US sent Explorer 1 into space.

Slide 22

Mariner Project

The Mariner Project was a series of US space probes build to provide information on the inner planets – Mercury, Venus, and Mars.

Mariner 2 launched in 1962.

Many embarrassing disasters on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral.

Slide 23

Slide 24

Voyager

The Mariner Project was renamed

Voyager.

Voyager 1 launched from Kennedy Space Center September 1977. In 1980 it approached Saturn.

Voyager 2 launched from Cape Canaveral in 1977 also.

Slide 25

Slide 26

Slide 27

Slide 28

Slide 29

Space Probes (Satellites)

Mariner

Viking 1 and 2 (summer 1976) 1st successful landing on mars. Designed to explore inner planets

Voyager 1 and 2 designed to explore outer planets

Galileo – 1989 – The 1st probe to orbit Jupiter and sent a smaller probe into it’s atmosphere. Launched from a space shuttle.

Slide 30

NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an agency of the United States federal government, responsible for the nation's public space program. Established on July 29, 1958, by the National Aeronautics and Space Act.

Slide 31

Space Centers

Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Mostly a manned spacecraft center. Established in 1965.

Kennedy Space Center – Cape Canaveral Florida. Mostly a satellite and shuttle center.

Other places include Mississippi.

Slide 32

Manned Space Program

Mercury Program

Slide 33

Mercury Program

The Mercury Program (1960 – 1962)

1st program to put an astronaut into space.

Slide 34