National Aeronautics and Space

Administration

April, 1981First Reusable Shuttle

October, 1958Let’s Begin

1960TRIOS Program

October, 1958Project Mercury

July, 1969Apollo Mission 11

January, 1962Project Gemini

So We Begin…

• Established by Mr. Eisenhower– In response to Soviet Union launching the first

artificial satellite

• To perform civilian research related to space flight and aeronautics

• Dr. T. Keith Glennanas- first administrator• Dr. Hugh L. Dryden- deputy administrator

Project Mercury

• First national manned space flight project– Object: Get men on the moon

• Goals:– Orit a manned spacecraft around Earth– Investigate man’s ability to function in space– Recover man and spacecraft safely

• Lasted 5 years• 7 astronauts• 6 missions (May 1961-May 1963)

Project Mercury Launch

TRIOS Program

• Television Infrared Observation Satellite• Beginning of modern satellite weather

technology• First attempt to get satellites to help

researchers better understand earth• First step to space based meteorology

Weather Satellite

Project Gemini

• Second national manned space program• 2 man crew• 12 flights– Including 2 unmanned flight test of equipment

• Goals:– Subject man/equipment to space flight up to two weeks– To meet with orbiting vehicles– The perfect methods of entering the atmosphere and

landing at a pre-selected place• The third goal was not met- project was cancelled in 1964

Apollo Mission 11• Primary objective

– Goal set by President John F. Kennedy– Perform a crewed lunar landing and return to Earth.

• Flight objectives:– Scientific exploration by the lunar module, or LM, crew– Deployment of a television camera to transmit signals to Earth– Deployment of a solar wind composition experiment

• Crew Neil Armstrong Commander

Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. Lunar Module Pilot

Michael CollinsCommand Module Pilot

Backup Crew James A. Lovell Commander

Fred W. Haise Jr.Lunar Module Pilot

William A. Anders Command Module Pilot

Interactive Moon

To Infinity…And Beyond!

• Nation’s first reusable space shuttle launched– “Bright, white” Columbia

• Named after the first American ocean vessel to circle the globe

• The heaviest of NASA's orbiters– Columbia weighed too much and lacked the

necessary equipment to assist with assembly of the International Space Station

Interactive Space

WORKS CITED

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Kennedy Space Center. Kay Grinter, 26 Aug. 2000. Web. 20 Jan. 2010. <http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/history/>.