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CHAPTER 10 : SPACE EXPLORATION
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1 Development in the field of Astronomy :

Astronomer
Year
384
322
BC
Aristotle
- 200 BC Aristarchus
- 100 BC Hipparchus

1473
1564
1571
1642
1656
1905
1738
1812
1906

120 AD
1543
1642
1630
1727
1743
1950
1822
1910
1997

Claudius Ptolemy
Nicholas Copernicus
Galileo Galilei
Johannes Kepler
Isaac Newton
Edmond Halley
Karl Jansky
William Herschel
Johann G. Galle
Clyde W. Tombaugh

Contribution
Suggested that Earth is spherical in shape and not flat.
Suggested that Earth is rotates on its axis and moves on its orbit.
Classifield stars according to their brightness.
Suggested that Earth is the centre of the Solar System.
Suggested that Sun is the centre of the Solar System.
Invented first astronomical telescope.
Suggested that Earth's orbit is elliptical in shape.
Introduced the laws of gravity.
Discovered Halley's Comet.
First man to detect radio waves from outer space with radio telescope

Discovered Uranus in 1781

Discovered Neptune in 1846.
Discovered Pluto in 1930

2 Development in space exploration :

Year
Events
1926
Goddard launched the first fuel-propelled rocket to space.
1957
First man-made satellite, Sputnik 1, was launched into the orbit around the Earth.
1959
First spaceship, Lunar 2, was launched but crashed onto the Moon's surface.
1961
Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space in the spaceship.
1962
First space probe, Mariner 2, was launched to Venus.
1966
Soviet Unions's spaceship, Lunar 9, landed on the Moon's surfce.
1969
Neil Armstrong, first astronaut landed on the Moon in the spaceship, Apollo 11.
1973
Space station, Skylab, was launched to Earth's orbit.
1976
Viking 1 and Viking 2 landed on Mars.
1981
First space shuttle, Columbia was launched.
1989
Voyager 2 moved across the space of Pluto.
1992
Spaceship, Mars Observer, launched to orbited Mars.
3 Application of technology related to space exploration and astronomy :
Space telescopes

Space probes

Satellites

Rockes

Observe galaxies

Taking photgraphs of
our solar system

Remote sensing and

Telecommunications

Launch spaceships,
probe or satellites

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