Review

What was the first space probe

launched into space?

Sputnik 1
Review
What other space probes were
launched into space?

Luna Viking Mariner 10

Scientific Terms

Escape Velocity
- Is the speed that
an object needs to
be traveling to break
free of a planet or
moon's gravity.
Scientific Terms

Radiation

- Is energy that
moves from one
place to another.
Scientific Terms
Astronaut/Cosmonaut

- a person trained
to travel, command
or serve as a crew
in a spacecraft.
Scientific Terms

Space Station
- is a spacecraft
capable of supporting
crewmembers, which is
designed to remain in
space for an extended
period of time and for
other spacecraft to
dock.
Space Suit
-Is a garment worn
to keep a human
alive in the harsh
environment of
outer space.
 Date Achievement
April 1961 Thats
First manned spacecraft. one small
step for a man,
June 1963 one giant leap for
First woman to orbit
Earth.
mankind.
March 1966 Venus 3 was the first
man-made object to
land on another planet.
July 1969 First man to land and
Valentina
As of today, 3
walk on the moon. Svetlana
Alexey
Yuri
Sally
The
Space Neil
Laika
JohnSkylab
Gagarin
Glenn
Ride
Hubble
Shuttle
in
Tereshkova
Venus
space 3
stations
May 1973 USA puts the first space Savitskaya
Leonov
Armstrong
Colombia
repair.
station Skylab into orbit.
are in orbit.
March 1979 Voyager 1 photographed
Jupiter and its moon in
close range.
April 1981 Space Shuttle Colombia
International Space
was launched. It is the
first shuttle to reach
Station Earths orbit.
1998 Lunar Prospector found
the moons frozen water.
Man greatest achievement in
space exploration was the
landing on the lunar surface.
 Problems

Airlessness

Weightlessness
Space
Exploration
Extreme Heat

Radiation
Gravity
Scientist found a
way to escape
gravity in order to
move out of the
Earths
atmosphere. They
found out that at a
minimum speed of
23,175 miles per
hour, space crafts
will be able to
escape the Earths
gravity.
Summing up

What was mans greatest

achievement in space
exploration?

Man greatest achievement

in space exploration was
the landing on the lunar
surface.
Summing up

What were the problems in

space explorations?

Problems during space

travel were airlessness,
weightlessness, extreme
heat and radiation.
 Group Activity

Draw or illustrate on a one whole

cartolina your own space ship,
space station or satellite. Add
features that will make your
creation safe as it travels in
space.
Sharpen your skills
Write TRUE if the statement is correct and
FALSE if otherwise on the space before the
number.
_____1. Mans greatest achievement in space
exploration was sending a man into
space.
_____2. Edwin Aldrin was the first man to set
foot on the moon.
_____3. Escaping Earths gravity is one of the
problems in space exploration.
_____4. Space suit is needed to travel into
space.
_____5. An astronaut is person who is trained
to travel in space.
Assignment
1. Search for the latest news about space
missions from libraries, television, radio or
the internet.
2. Make a table like the one below and find
out which country is leading in the space
race.
Name of High Tech. Space Place
Country Launch Instrumen Discovery visited by Status
and Space date t and made Space
Craft Capability Craft