10.

2 Developments in Space Exploration

Year Event Picture
110 Chinese Launched Small
0 Rockets with Firecrackers to
War.
180 W.Congreve “Invented” a
4 Rocket for the West (USA)

190 K. Tsiolkovsky proposed

3 liquid fuel rockets (French)

191 USSR is Established

7
192 First fuel rocket is Launched
6 by Robert Goddard from
America

195 Sputnik 1- USSR’s first

7 Satellite to orbit Earth
Sputnik 2- Carried a dog
named Laika. It died.
195 Explorer 1-America launched
8 its first satellite into Space
195 Lunar 2 – Crashed in 24 hours
9 Lunar 3 – Launched to the
moon by USSR.
196 Vostok 1- Carrying Yuri
1 Gagarin, the first human into
space. It orbits around Earth
for only 108 minutes before
returning back.
196 Mariner 2 – First US probe
2 into Venus.

196 Vostok 6 – Carrying Valentina

3 Tereshkova, first Female into
space (USSR)
196 Mariner 4- Probe by USA into
4 Mars

196 A.Leonev- first to walk in

5 space, lasting 7 days 53
minutes.

196 Lunar 9- Russian Spacecraft

6 first landed on the moon. It
weighs 66 kg and the soft
landing lasts 15 days.
196 Apollo 8- US spacecraft
8 surrounds moon .
196 Apollo II landed on the moon
9 with a step of Neil
Armstrong.
197 The Soviets launched its own
1 space station, Salyut 1 .

197 Pioneer 10- First Probe into

2 Jupiter.

197 Pioneer 2 – Saturn

3 Mariner 10 – Mercury
Skylab- Space station that
orbits Earth
197 Viking 1&2- Mars
6

198 Columbia- First Space Shuttle

1
198 Launch of Voyager 2-Uranus
6 Launch of Voyager 2 -Pluto
198
9
199 Collapse of USSR
1 End of space race
The Use Of Space Technology
1)Telescope
The information collected by telescopes are
transmitted by radio waves back to Earth. There are
three types of telescope.
Reflection Uses Mirror Takes and sends
Telescope pictures from outer
Refraction Uses Lens Space
Telescope
Radio Detects radio waves and radiation
Telescope emitted naturally by outer space objects
2) Satellite
The transmitter station sends
signals to the satellite. The
satellite changes its waves and
frequency. The waves is then
sent back to Earth, to be
picked up by local receiver
stations.
3) Rocket
Rockets are used to launch objects to
be carried into outer space such as
spacecraft, satellite and probe. It can’t
be used repeatedly.
4) Spaceship
Spaceships are a type of vehicle or machine launched
into outer space.
5) Space shuttle
A space shuttle is a type of spacecraft that could be
launched into space and return to Earth. It is used to
carry astronauts and science equipment into space,
launches satellites and space probes and to recapture
and repair old equipment.
6) Space Probes
It’s a robot launched to discover other planets.
7) Space Stations
They are the resting place for astronauts. Currently,
the most commonly used is the multinational
International Space Station (ISS).