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TECHNOLOGY
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2 Manned Missions

1. Space shuttles
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3 Manned Missions

2. International space station

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4 Non Manned Missions

1. Hubble Space Telescope

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2. Robots observers and satellites

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Non Manned Missions
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2. Space probes
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 1. Ground based
telescopes
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 1. Ground based
telescopes
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 1. Ground based
telescopes
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2. Spectroscopes
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 3. Computers
 1st Telescopes
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 1. 1608 Hans
Lippershey looked
through 2 lenses at
one time
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 He noticed objects
appeared much larger
than normal
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1609 Galileo looked at the sky and

recorded what he saw
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 WHY WE NEED THE
Hubble Space Telescope
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 Ground based telescopes are affected by air

turbulence and light pollution
 Astronomers wanted an eye in the sky
 Earths atmosphere absorbs and scatters light
 Hubble Space Telescope
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 1990 The Hubble

space telescope was
launched
 Hubble Space Telescope
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 Circles Earths every 96 minutes at

18,000 mph
 375 miles above Earth
 Carries
 Infrared cameras
 Spectroscope
 Instruments to measure star information
 Communication antennas
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 Can see 10 times better

than any ground based
telescope
 Receives routine space
services by space walking
astronauts
 Can see the
HOLLYWOOD sign
from Washington D.C.
 Images from Hubble
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 Images from Hubble
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 Mars Exploration Rovers
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 Launched towards
Mars on June 10 and
July 7, 2003
 In search of answers
about the history of
water on Mars.
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 Primary goal is to
search for and
characterize a wide
range of rocks and
soils that hold clues to
past water activities
 Sputnik 1
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 Launched by the
Soviet Union on
October 4, 1957
 Helped to identify the
upper atmospheric
layer’s density
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 Traveled at 18,000
miles per hour
 Took 96.2 minutes to
complete an orbit
 Transmitted radio
signals for 22 days
 Burned up on Jan. 4
1958 as it fell from
orbit
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 Soviet space program

 To Venus
 Late 1960’s, 1970’s
and early 1980’s
 13 successful missions
 Designed to either
orbit Venus, probe its
atmosphere or reach
its surface
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 Veneras 4,5,&6 gather

data on the
composition of the
atmosphere
 Largely made up of
Carbon-dioxide, with
little oxygen
 7 – 14 landed on
Venus
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 Venera 10 – 1st black

and white photograph
 Venera 13 – 1st color
photos
 Also measured surface
temperature, detected
lightning and analyzed
the Venusian soil,
finding rocks rare on
Earth
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 Future trips are

unlikely due to the
break up of the Soviet
Union in 1991
 Little money left for
the space program’s
funding