8th grade ch. 2 sec. 2 the space program

Ch. 2 Sec. 2The Space Program

Ocean of

Storms

Sea of Tranquility

Space Race

Laika

Laika, the dog, was the first living being to orbit the Earth in space.

Laika died when the Sputnik 2 capsule overheated after four days or less in orbit.

SpacSpace e

RaceRacerivalry in space

exploration between US

& Soviet Union

ationaleronautics

&pace

dministration

Soviet Union: Sputnik I

40-pound sphere

1st artificial satellite

Oct. 4, 1957

Yuri Gagarin 1st person in space- Vostok I

April 12, 1961

United StatesExplorer I 1st American

satelliteJanuary 31,1958

Alan Shepherd 1st American in space-Freedom 7

May 5, 1961

John Glenn 1st American to orbit Earth- in Friendship 7

February 20, 1962

Thirty-six years later, on October 29, 1998aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery, John Glenn became the oldest person to go into space at the age of 77-years-old.

Important events in moon exploration

• JFK speech- May 1961

• Apollo program-land astronauts on moon

• Surveyor - landed on moon & did not sink

SurveyorSurveyor

•July 20, 1969 –Apollo 11 landed on moon

Neil Armstrong-1st man to walk on moon

That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

Neil Armstrong

moon rocksmoon rocks• same minerals

on Earth

• when moon’s surface formed

• moonquakes- center of moon may be molten

Alfred (Al) Worden

Apollo 15 July 26- August 7, 1971

new missions to moon• 2003- European Space Agency orbited

unpiloted spacecraft to orbit moon

• 2004- US announced plan to put permanent colony on moon Mars

Planning a Voyage to the Moon

You and your team will be creating a timeline that outlines the important dates of the space

race & current space program. • You must include 10 important events with dates,

pictures and 1-2 sentences describing each event.

• For example:• satellite launches• people in space• space race • problems that the space program had • first landing on the moon • recent events in the space program  • EVERYTHING MUST BE TYPED