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First to Fly from into That Silent Sea
The first fly was dangerously close to the launch pad "Now the powerful engines come to life, the rocket is trembling and the white frost wraps it in a thin haze." Gagarin stated. The start was frantic but Gagarin was in orbit and his view was of a mountain area with rivers and forests it was beautiful. The sun was too bright to look at for him he has never seen a blackness as deep as the infinity of space. -
President Kennedy Address at Rice University
John F. Kennedy (Execpet: President Kennedy's Address at Rice University, 1962.) Says his plan "There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostile to us all, its conquest deserves the best of all again. But why, some say the moon? Why choose this as our goal?And yet the Atlantnic? Why does rice play texas? -
What The Moon Rocks tells Us
When the first box of Moon Rocks it was expectant atmosphere in lunar, Dr. Robin Brett, a NASA geologist on the team that had first examined the lunar samples the rocks were covered in dark grey dust but when they were cleaned off they tell a long story. -
Preface from Flight My Life in Mission Control
Christopher Columbus Kraft is 36 A chimpanzee named Ham is going to be tested on the mission called Mercury-Redstone 2 into space. A electrical unit overheated and Han started to get warm. -
"And a Dog Shall Lead Them" from A Ball, a Dog, and a Monkey
In Moscow a dog named Laika a very good pet, calm, intelligent, easily trained, loves children. Laika is getting placed in a padded capsule of Sputnik II on October 31st. -
Life on Mars to Become a reallity in 2023, Dutch Firm claims
Before a man named Carl Sagan died, he had recorded a message hoping for it to be Mars explorers telling him that "whatever the reason you're on Mars is, I'm glad you're there." 17 years after pioneering set out his vision of the future in 1996. -
Buzz Aldrin on His Lunar Home, the Eagle from the Wall Street Journal
Buzz Aldrin was a member of the Apollo II moon mission. After the Apollo mission lifted off on July 16th, 1969, in Florida Neil Armstrong and Mike Colliin, Buzz Aldrin was in space for 3 days to reach the Earth's orbit. -
The Space Race: Introduction
1942, October 3rd, world war II, Nazi Germany had launched a rocket called V-2. The V-2 rocket was made by a German named Wernher Von Bruan. The V-2 can fly up to 3,000 miles per hour. The V-2 has became the first- man made object to successfully go to the edge of space, the V-2 rocket also has a weapon and rain explosives in London. -
The nearly forgotten story of the black woman who helped land a man on the moon
Mary Gainer in 2011 she worked as a historic preservationist for NASA and she had found a photo one day in 1943 of thousands of people standing in a big building The front was black men who were probably machinists, and the rest was white men in suits. -
Katherine Johnson Trailblazer and Briliant Mathematician
Katherine Johnson is a African-American, she had graduated from college and she ended up being hired as one of several woman working at NASA. She was able to calculate the flight path for Americans first mission in space. Kathrine had worked at NASA for 33 years.