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A Brief History of Space Exploration
• Focus on manned space flight
• Little emphasis on non-US contributions
• VERY limited highlights of unmanned missions
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Robert Goddard
• Father of American Rocketry
• First liquid propelled rocket - 1926
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Dr. Werner von Braun
• Leader of Nazi rocketry research
• Inventor of the V-2 Rocket
• War criminal? Victim of Nazi “scorched Earth”?
• American hero?
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I have learned to use the word "impossible“
with the greatest caution.”
• Slated for execution to prevent capture by the Allies
• A “prize” for which the Russians and Americans competed
• Surrendered to Americans
• Became the “father” of the U.S. space program
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Sputnik – October 4, 1957“October Sky”
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The “Space Race”
• Sputnik puts America into near panic
• 4/12/61 USSR puts Yuri Gagarin into space
• America Responds with Project Mercury
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Project Mercury – “The Right Stuff”
• Mercury Redstone Rocket
• Single astronaut
• First U.S. manned ballistic flight – Alan Shephard 5/5/61
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Astronaut and SenatorJohn Glenn
• Mercury Freedom 7• First American to orbit
Earth 2/20/62• Oldest person to travel
in space (Space Shuttle)
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Liberty 7 on the seafloor
A near tragedy
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Project Gemini
• Titan Rocket• Two astronauts• First “Space Walk”
(EVA)• Rendezvous with
Agena modules and with other Gemini capsules
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Gemini capsule
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Ed White Gemini 4 EVA
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Mercury and Gemini –preludes to Apollo Project
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Apollo 8 Liftoff from KSC12/21/68
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Earthrise from lunar orbit – Apollo 8
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Apollo 11: Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin
July 16, 1969
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Apollo 11 LM – “Eagle”
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“Houston, the Eagle has landed.”
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Neil Armstrong – First Man on the Moon
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Buzz Aldrin – second man on the moon
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Lunar Rock fromApollo 11 Mission
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Buzz Aldrin
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Apollo 11 – American Heroes
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Earthrise from lunar orbit
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Apollo 17 Lunar Rover – 12/72
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Apollo 17 Geologist Harrison Schmidt
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Apollo 17 – Harrison Schmidt and Lunar Rover
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Apollo 17 Astronaut Harrison Schmitt in the field with Oneonta
Alumni and Students - 2003
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Skylab – a bridge between Apollo and the Shuttle - 1973
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Space Shuttle – 1980’s to present (?)
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Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
• January 28, 1986
• Shuttle blows up 73 seconds after liftoff
• Six professional astronauts – a spectrum of America
• Christa McAuliffe – first teacher in space
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HST – precious cargo for the Shuttle
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Hubble Space Telescope
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Hubble probes the mysteries of the cosmos
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Soyuz – the Russian endeavor
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Mir – a record of Russian accomplishment
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Gene and Carolyn Shoemaker
• Gene Shoemaker – a would-be astronaut
• Geologist and land-based explorer of space
• Pioneer in study of impact structures
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Shoemaker-Levy 9 and Jupiter
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Scar from Shoemaker-Levy 9
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Some Current Efforts
• International Space Station
• Search for extra-terrestrial planets
• Monitoring Earth’s atmosphere
• Sofia – Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy
• Mars Global Surveyor
• Mars Rovers
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Unmanned Exploration
• Mars Pathfinder and Sojourner Rover
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Mars Pathfinder
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Panorama from surface of Mars
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Messenger
• Messenger will arrive at Mercury in 2011
• Begin 1 year orbit to image and map surface