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55 Cards in this Set
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First American Woman in Space
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Sally Ride
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teacher that flew on board challenger when it exploded
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Christa McAuliffe
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1st space station Russian Space Station
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Salyut 1
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1st American Space Station
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Skylab
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Russian Space station
Name means peace |
Mir
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Space shuttle's orbiting laboratory
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Spacelab
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Space station presently in orbit
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International Space Station
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A crew of seven astronauts work in and fly this vehicle
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Orbiter
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2 rockets that help the shuttle lift off during the first few minutes of flight
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Solid fuel rocket boosters
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Liquid fuel rockets
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External Tank
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Area of the space shuttle where satellites can be carried into space
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Cargo bay
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First shuttle orbit
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Columbia
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3 Names of a reusable space shuttle
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Discovery, Atlantis, Endeavor which replaced the Challenger.
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oldest American to ride the space shuttle
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John Glenn
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Parts of space shuttle that are reusable
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orbiter and the solid rocket booster.
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1 9 6 0
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sounding rockets and lunar probes
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1 9 6 1
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Yuri Gagarin
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1961 May
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Alan Shepard Freedom 7
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1962
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John Glenn - Friendship *7
Mariner Probe- Went to venus |
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1965
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First walk in space
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1967
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Apollo 1 fire
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July 20,1969
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man on moon
1. Neil Armstrong 2. Edwin Aldren Flying in orbit Michael Collins |
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1971
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Salyut 1
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1972
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Apollo 17 Last Moon Landing
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1973
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Skylab 1 American Space station
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1975
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Viking 1 & 2 Galileo
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Action Reaction Law
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Sir Isaac Newton
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"rockets red glare"
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William Congreve
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added 3 fins
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William Hale
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Published a paper about rockets
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Konstantin tsiolkovsky
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"Father of modern rocketry"
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Robert H. Goddard
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German society for Space Travel
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Herman Olberth
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V-2 Rockets
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Wernher Von Braun
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First american in space
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Alan B Shephard
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1st American to orbit the earth
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John Glenn
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1st American to walk in space
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Ed White
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President
Established goal |
John F. Kennedy
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Chinese Flying Fire
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First rockets
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ICBM
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Intercontinental Balistic Missile
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Sputnik 1
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Russian Satellite
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American satellite discovered the magnetosphere
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Explorer 1
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2 Weather Satellites
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Tiros and Nimbus
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2 communications satellites
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Telstar and Syncom
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Lunar probe crashed into the moon after taking pictures of it
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Ranger
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Orbited the moon
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Lunar Orbiter
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Visited venus mars and mercury
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Mariner
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Visited Jupiter
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Pioneer
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Visited Mars
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Viking
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Visited Jupiter Saturn Uranus and Neptune
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Voyager.
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Apollo 11
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Landed on the moon
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Apollo 1
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Fire
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Apollo 13
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explosion
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Orbits= Returns
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Command Module
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engines=discarded
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service module
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lands
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Lunar module
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