Apollo 12 | Launch November 14, 1969, splash down November 24 | Moon (Not a Planet obviously) | (1 point) | 3. Phoenix | Launch: August 04, 2007Landing: November 1, 2008 | Mars | Mars surface dirt and rock samples. (1 point) | 4. Messenger | | Mercury | (1 point) | 5. Magellan | Mission start: May 04, 1989Mission End: October 12,1994 | Venus | Made first global map of the surface of Venus.
He got into the field because he had technical assignments with space station operations. But he officially decided to become an astronaut when he was a pilot in the U.S Air Force. In the Air Force he flew 144 missions in the Vietnam War. The first mission
The craft landed later that same day only 15 minutes and 22 seconds later. Data During the flight, Mercury Redstone 3 Freedom 7 attained a maximum velocity of 8,200 km/hour and an altitude of 186.4 km. The capsule landed 483 km downrange from Cape Canaveral in the Atlantic Ocean. Shepard experienced a maximum g-force of 6 during the booster acceleration phase of the mission and slightly less than 12 on re-entry. The duration of the flight was 15 minutes and 22 seconds with weightlessness lasting about 5 minutes.
Apollo 17 was the eleventh and final mission of the United States' Apollo program, the sixth mission to land humans on the Moon. Launched at 12:33 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) on December 7, 1972, with a three-member crew consisting of Commander Eugene Cernan, Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans, and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt, Apollo 17 remains the most recent manned Moon landing and the most recent crewed flight beyond low Earth orbit. After Apollo 17, extra Apollo spacecraft were used in the Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz Test Project programs. Apollo 17 was the sixth Apollo lunar landing, the first night launch of a U.S. human spaceflight and the final crewed launch of a Saturn V rocket. It was a "J-type mission", missions including three-day lunar surface stays, extended scientific capability, and the third Lunar Roving Vehicle.
"First we'll develop the technology," said Smitherman. "In 50 years or so, we'll be there. Then, if the need is there, we'll be able to do this. That's the gist of the report. Using today's energy costs, researchers figured a 12,000-kg Space Shuttle payload would cost no more than $17,700 for an elevator trip to GEO.
The Apollo program was conceived in 1960, but it wasn’t until May 25, 1961 that Kennedy had given his speech to announce his support for the program. When America found out that Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person to fly in space on April 12, 1961, it had given Kennedy the extra incentive needed to support the space program.
The very first mission failed and killed the three occupants of the spaceship. After many attempts, Apollo 11 successfully put Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin on the moon on July 20, 1969. NASA reached the moon five more times before the space shuttle program began. The main idea of the space shuttle program was to create reusable spaceships and allow easy flight. The first launch of the space shuttle Columbia was on April 12, 1981.
Explorer 1 had an orbital life cycle of about twelve years, and mission duration of four months. Upon re-entry to earth in 1970, it had completed an astounding 58,000 orbits around the Earth. At the same time as the Vanguard rockets (the satellites proceeding Explorer 1), President Eisenhower and the rest of his cabinet were trying to decide under which agency this new “space” issue fell under the jurisdiction of, to which they found no answer. President Eisenhower instated the National Aeronautics and Space Act which was the creation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration or more commonly known as NASA. NASA would go on to become the most influential organisation in the world in relation to anything space related.
If there was only one classification of a planet, we would probably have over 50 more additional planets (Inman, 2006). Hopefully, our knowledge of our universe will continue to expand and we will have a clearer view of what to classify a planet. I guess we are going to have to come with a new acronym to remember the planets bye. Because for now, many agree that there should only be 8 planets; Pluto should remain a dwarf planet. PLUTO ESSAY 3 Resources - Inman, M. (2006).
They vessel would move, built in communication delays were triggered, and the doors were sealed shut so they couldn’t get out as if they were really in space. I agree with the fact that we should test them before they go to Mars to make sure if it is physically and mentally possible. If we were to send astronauts