Everyday Science Exercise 10 ( The Universe )

Everyday Science Exercise 10 ( The Universe )

• 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 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 5th 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 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.
• Geostationary Orbit is at a height of 36,000 km.
• Pathfinder is robot craft that landed on Mars in 1997.