Missions in SPACE!

Missions in SPACE!

Before we start….

• http://video.msnbc.msn.com/mitchell-reports/50824838/#50824838

Unmanned Missions

• Voyager I and Voyager II– Launched in 1977– Originally sent to

survey outer planets– Continues to

explore the outer edges of our solar system today.

Unmanned Missions

• Discoveries– Watch the video and write down every discovery

you see.– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na1mLpjxmYY

Unmanned Missions

• Discoveries– Outer planet rings– Outer planet moons– Geography of outer

planets and moons• Including lakes on titan!

– Planetary features• Jupiter’s red eye

Unmanned Missions

• The “Golden Record”– Read about the golden record and write an IVF

summary about what you read.

Contents of the Golden Records

• http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/scenes.html

Voyager Recap

• http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/JPLvoyagerModule/JPLvoyagerModule.html

Back to that Meteor…

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kvHl5Qcnzc

Unmanned Missions

• Mars Science Laboratory: Curiosity Rover– Launched in 2011 and landed on Mars August

2012– Goal: Study the biology, geology, and climate of

mars.• Break down materials and determine parts• Evaluate atmosphere• Determine water and CO2 cycles

Unmanned missions

• The difficult part is the landing– http://ww

w.youtube.com/watch?v=h2I8AoB1xgU

Unmanned missions

• What can the curiosity rover do?

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64hvqhgbaLw

Unmanned missions• Why do we do this?– Curiosity’s secondary goal is to set the stage for

sending a human space crew to Mars.

Manned (and Woman-ed) Missions

• Project Mercury (1959-1963)– First USA manned missions to space– Primary Objective: Put an astronaut in orbit

around the earth.• Project Gemini (1962-1966)– Primary Objective: Develop technologies that

would put American astronauts on the moon.

Manned (and Woman-ed) Missions

• The Apollo Program– First space program to put a person on the moon;

specifically Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin– The complexity of the mission was enormous• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program

The Lunar Landing

• The summary• http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/apollo11_

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Google Moon!

• http://www.google.com/moon/