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6th Grade
02/28/2013

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 Aristotle
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believe in a geocentric universe
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Ptolemy
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believe in geocentric universe
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Copernicus
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believe in heliocentirc universe
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Galileo
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proved copernicus heliocentric theory with a improved telescope
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Space Exploration
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its started by launching rockets into space
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Robert Goddard
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first to build and laucnh a liquid fuel rocket
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President John F. Kennedy
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promised to land a man on the moon and bring him safely back to earth by the end of the decade (1960)
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Alan Shepard
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First U.S man in space
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John Glenn
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First U.S man to orbit the earth, first to eat in space
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Neil Armstrong
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first man to walk on moon 

quoted one small step for man one giant leap for man kind

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Buzz Aldrin
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Apollo 11 astronaut 

first manned lunar landing mission

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Michael Collins
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Apollo 11 astronaut

First manned lunar landing mission

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Sally Ride
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First U.S women in space
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Gemini
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2 astronauts per mission
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Skylab
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first U.S space station (1937 - 1979)
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Space Shuttle
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Designed to transport astronauts to and from the moon

- first space craft to be reuesable

-can be launch like a rocket and land lika a airplane

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Apollo
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program that took the U.S to the moon
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Space probes
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unmanned missions with the ability to travel around the solar system
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missions
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explorer program

marinier program

mars rovers

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mission to outer planet
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voyager program 1977

voyager 2 mission took it to jupiter in july 1979

saturn in august 1981 and then uranus

in the summer of 1989 NASAs voyager 2 became the first space craftto observe neptune

it escape the solar system and will not be coming back

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cassini
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cassini completed its four year mission to explore the planet saturn in june 2008 the mission exstension through september 2017 will allow for the first study of a complete seasonal period
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New horizons
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New Horizons pluto kuiper belt mission launch in january 2006 and due to arrive at pluto in 2015
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sputnik
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first rocket satilite in space
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yuri gagarin
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first man in space
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valentina tereshkova
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first woman in space

 

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mir
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space station in operation for 15 years
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rocket arrows
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produced by china in 1232
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international space station
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modern day joint effort of many contries in space reasearch

15 nation signed 1998 agreement

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