History Of Space Exploration
In april 1981 the launch of the space shuttle columbia ushered in a period of reliance on the reusable.
History of space exploration. The beginning of space trash. Common rationales for exploring space include advancing scientific research national prestige uniting different nations ensuring the future survival of humanity and developing military and strategic advantages against other countries. Early explorers sputnik and the creation of nasa.
A personal perspective eilene galloway often called the grand matriarch of space. History of space exploration prelude to spaceflight precursors in fiction and fact. But it also marked another milestone.
September 12 mae jemison became the first african american woman in space. Apollo 12 launches for second moon landing nov. The result is a new perspective of how the human race went from the first step in comprehending space to the first glimpse of a black hole.
May 7 the space shuttle endeavor was launched on her maiden voyage. 1992 first confirmed observation of an exoplanet. The history of space exploration the history of space exploration during the time that has passed since the launching of the first artificial satellite in 1957 astronauts have traveled to the moon probes have explored the solar system and instruments in space have discovered thousands of planets around other stars.
On october 4 1957 sputnik i made history as the first satellite to successfully launch into space. Space exploration presents a fascinating and unusual new way of viewing more than 70 000 years of space history in 100 objects that each brought us one step forward in our understanding of the cosmos. On july 20 1969.
Stories of missions past. As centuries of speculative fiction in books and more recently in films make clear one small step for a man one giant leap for mankind was taken by the human spirit many times and in many ways before neil armstrong stamped humankind s first footprint on the moon. Since ancient times people around the world have studied the heavens and used their observations and explanations of astronomical phenomena for both religious and practical purposes.