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| believe in a geocentric universe |
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| believe in geocentric universe |
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| believe in heliocentirc universe |
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| proved copernicus heliocentric theory with a improved telescope |
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| its started by launching rockets into space |
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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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| First U.S man to orbit the earth, first to eat in space |
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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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Apollo 11 astronaut
first manned lunar landing mission |
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Apollo 11 astronaut
First manned lunar landing mission |
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| first U.S space station (1937 - 1979) |
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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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| program that took the U.S to the moon |
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| unmanned missions with the ability to travel around the solar system |
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explorer program
marinier program
mars rovers |
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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 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 pluto kuiper belt mission launch in january 2006 and due to arrive at pluto in 2015 |
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| first rocket satilite in space |
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| space station in operation for 15 years |
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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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