CK12 Earth Science

spy satellites or for scientific purposes, such as meteorology, if taken by weather satellites. Astronomers use imaging satellit ...

The Space Race FromtheendofWorldWarIIin1945tothebreakupoftheSovietUnion(USSR)in1991, the SovietUnionandtheUnitedStateswereinmili ...

Figure 23.22: The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite,.on October 4, 1957. ( 16 ) ...

Table 23.1: Space Race Timeline Date Accomplished Country Name of Mission October 4, 1957 First artificial satel- lite, first si ...

Table 23.1: (continued) Date Accomplished Country Name of Mission March 1, 1966 First impact into an- other planet (Venus) USSR ...

Figure 23.23: Neil Armstrong took this photo of Buzz Aldrin on the Moon during the Apollo 11mission. ArmstrongandtheLunarModulec ...

Following the Apollo 11 mission, four other American missions successfully put astronauts on the Moon. The last manned mission t ...

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Robert Goddard, and Hermann Oberthall came up with sim- ilar ideas for improving rocket design. These i ...

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23.3 Recent Space Exploration Lesson Objectives Outline the history of space stations and space shuttles. Describe recent devel ...

Figure 23.25: The Soviet Salyut 7 space station was in orbit from 1982 to 1991. ( 14 ) ...

Figure 23.26: This image of Skylab was taken as the last crew left the station in January of ( 10 ) Modular Space Stations The ...

Figure 23.27: The Soviet/Russian space station Mir was designed to have several different parts attached to a core. ( 5 ) ...

Figure 23.28: American space shuttles visited Mir several times during the 1990’s. This picture was taken by Russian cosmonauts ...

Figure 23.29: This photograph of the International Space Station was taken by the space shuttle Atlantis in June 2007. Construct ...

be reusable and able to carry large pieces of equipment, such as satellites, space telescopes, or sections of a space station. T ...

orbiter, the part that has wings like an airplane. When a space shuttle launches, the orbiter is attached to a huge fuel tank th ...

From the first flight in 1981 to the end of 1985, space shuttles flew over 20 successful mis- sions, including many satellite la ...

to be ready by 2014. All the remaining shuttle missions will be to the International Space Station, except for one repair missio ...

Figure 23.34: This image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope shows the Cat’s Eye Nebula. Hubble has produced thousands of beauti ...