The apollo missions

Apollo 15

-Astronauts: David Scott

Apollo 12

1969- NASA launches this second manned mission to the moon, retrieved pieces of surveyor 3

Apollo 14

1971 lunar mission; Alan Shepard driving golf ball and Edgar Mitchell attempting to send telepathic messages to fellow parapsychologists on earth.

Apollo 11

1st lunar landing/ Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin and Michael Collins

Apollo 8

1st mission to orbit moon/ frank borman, Jim Lovell and William anders

Apollo Missions

A series of space flights undertaken by the United States with a goal of landing a man on the moon. Each Apollo flight carried a crew of three astronauts. The first lunar landing by humans was achieved by Apollo 11 on July 20, 1969.

Apollo 13

America's failed mission to the moon. Famous quote "Houston, we have a problem." Movie starring Tom Hanks.

What complications did the Apollo missions have

Apollo 1 mission the capsule caught fire and killed 3 astronauts on earth

What accomplishments did the Apollo missions have

Apollo 7 had fulfilled the mission of Apollo 1 and Saturn 5 was the most powerful and strongest machine "alive"

Cassini-Huygens *

Cassini-Huygens is an unmanned spacecraft sent to the planet Saturn. It is a flagship-class NASA-ESA-ASI robotic spacecraft.

Apollo 2

Failed

Apollo 3

Failed

Apollo 6

Final uncrewed Apollo test flight.

Apollo 1

Fire/ gus grisson, ed white, roger chaffee

Apollo 4

First all up launch of Saturn V

Apollo 5

First test of a lunar module in space.

high altitude balloons

High-altitude balloons are unmanned balloons, usually filled with helium or hydrogen and rarely methane, that are released into the stratosphere, generally attaining between 60,000 to 120,000 ft (11 to 23 mi; 18 to 37 km).

What does it mean when you read that the moon's surface had no atmosphere? What did the astronauts wear so that they could explore the moon?

It means the moon doesn't have oxygen or carbon dioxide it only had a little gravity and that is all. They wore space suits.

Gemini Missions

It was a United States space program that started in 1961 and concluded in 1966. Project Gemini was conducted between projects Mercury and Apollo. The Gemini spacecraft carried a two-astronaut crew. Ten crews flew low Earth orbit (LEO) missions between 1965 and 1966.

Apollo 1

January 1966 - an electrical spark started a fire and astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee died. Entire spacecraft redesign followed.

juno

Juno is a NASA space probe orbiting the planet Jupiter. It was built by Lockheed Martin and is operated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. ... Juno's mission is to measure Jupiter's composition, gravity field, magnetic field, and polar magnetosphere.

NASA

NASA stands for National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA was started in 1958 as a part of the United States government. NASA is in charge of U.S. science and technology that has to do with airplanes or space.

How many more Apollo Missions followed Apollo 11? How many people have walked on the Moon?

Six more Apollo missions followed and a total of 12 people have walked on the moon.

How long were the first 2 astronauts on the moon and what did they do while they were on the moon? What did they bring back?

The 2 astronauts were on the moon for 2 hours and 21min. On the moon they did experiments and collected moon rocks. They brought back 108 kg of moon rocks.

International Space Station

The International Space Station is a large spacecraft. It orbits around Earth. It is a home where astronauts live. The space station is also a science lab. Many countries worked together to build it.

What was historic about the Apollo 11 mission?

They were the first people to walk on the Moon and got home safely.

Apollo 16

This spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on April 27, 1972 and had a precious cargo of moon rocks

Apollo 7

This was the first three person space mission, launched in a Saturn IB

How many astronauts were on the Apollo 11 Space mission? What were their names and what was the role of each astronaut?

Three astronauts landed on the Moon. Neil Armstrong was the mission commander, Micheal Collins was the command module pilot, and Edwin Buzz Aldrin Jr. was lunar module pilot

What was the point of the Apollo missions

To get American astronauts to the moon and back alive

Voyager 2

Voyager 2 is a space probe launched by NASA on August 20, 1977 to study the outer planets. Part of the Voyager program, it was launched 16 days before its twin, Voyager 1, on a trajectory that took longer to reach Jupiter and Saturn but enabled further encounters with Uranus and Neptune.

space probes *

a blunt-ended surgical instrument used for exploring a wound or part of the body

space shuttles

a rocket-launched spacecraft, able to land like an unpowered aircraft, used to make repeated journeys between the earth and earth orbit.

lunar landers

a space vehicle module designed to carry astronauts from the command modul'e to the surface of the moon and back —called also lunar excursion module

space telescopes

an astronomical telescope that operates in space by remote control, to avoid interference by the earth's atmosphere

Sputnik

each of a series of Soviet artificial satellites, the first of which (launched on October 4, 1957) was the first satellite to be placed in orbit.

Apollo 8

first mission to take man around the moon in 1968

Apollo 11

made the first lunar landing, July 20, 1969 - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin with Mike Collins in orbit.

Apollo 9

name the Apollo that orbited Earth and docked the LEM

Sky Lab

was the United States' first space station, orbiting Earth from 1973 to 1979, when it fell back to Earth amid huge worldwide media attention. Launched and operated by NASA, Skylab included a workshop, a solar observatory, and other systems necessary for crew survival and scientific experiments.

Apollo 10

went to moon but just orbited and returned photography, tested different components while orbiting