ADVENTURES IN SPACE

·   First artificial satellite was Sputnik-I sent by Soviet Union on October 4, 1957

·   Sputnik-II on November 3, 1957 took a female dog Laika into space

·   On July 20, 1969 US Apollo 11 touched down the moon

·   Skylab was launched in 1973 by US.

·   What country launched its first space rocket January 1961-Italy

·   What happened to Laika first dog in space                Suffocated no air burned re-entry

·   A Russian space programs name meant East what was it Vostok

·   What was the first man made object to leave the solar system Pioneer 10

·   Voyager I, spacecraft introduced ring system of Jupiter.

·   Escape velocity is 24800 miles/hour or 7 miles/sec

·   First human in space is Yuri Gagrin 1961 on USSR

·   Appolo crew returned to earth with 382 kg of moon soil

·   First space scientist was Henry Quendish

·   Man entered in space on 14 October 1957

·   First American shuttle to land on moon named “Bamini” in March, 1966

·   First woman in space was Valentine Khurachoof in 14 June, 1963

·   America launched its first space station in 1973

·   In 1979 Sky Lab was destroyed in earth’s atmosphere

·   In 1986, Russia launched its space station Mir

·   Hubble telescope launched in April 243, 1990 through Discovery Shuttle

·   Apollo XI enabled man to step on moon

·   Russian cosmonaut Valery Polyakov holds the record for the longest stay in space. He spent 437 days in orbit in the Mir Space Station.

·   The first American Astronaut to go into space was Allen Shepherd.

·   First space vehicle to land on moon was Luna-9

·   Voyager I, spacecraft introduced ring system of Jupiter.

·   Pioneer 10 and 11 launched in 1973 and 1974, voyager 1 & 2 in 1979 and Galileo in 1995 were missions sent to Jupiter

·   Astronomers know of over 50 moons orbiting Jupiter.

·   Vostok I carried first man in space.

·   Telstar, the world’s first communication satellite was launched in 1962.

·   Mercury project, first manned space programme of USA, carried the first American into space on 5^th May 1961.

·   Sputnik II, first artificial satellite was launched on 3 Nov: 1957.

·   Lovell telescope is at Jodrell Bank (Site for space observatory).

·   Yuri Gagarin (Russia) cosmonauts became first traveler in space in 1961.

·   The first American Astronaut to go into space was Allen Shepherd

·   Russian Cosmonaut valley polyakov holds the record for the longest stay in space. He spent 437 days in orbit in the Mir Space Station.

·   What was the first food consumed on the moon in Apollo 11-Turkey

·   The first person to orbit the earth in space. John Glenn

·   Columbia Space shuttle broke up on re-entry to Earth on Feb 1, 2003.

·   Skylab was space laboratory launched in 1973 by USA.

·   First women in space Valentine Tereshkove went into space in Vostoc 6 on 16 June 1963.

·   On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldren landed on the moon.