Transcript race to space - cmasescience

RACE TO SPACE
Lynne H. Hehr
Center for Mathematics and Science Education
Arkansas NASA Educator Resource Center
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
All it took was. . .
• a little tissue paper. . .
• a little glue. . .
• and. . .
. . . a lot of
WANT TO!
Man With Wings
?
Kites
202 BC
Flight by Parachute
Ornithopter
1490
Montgolfier Balloon
1783
First US Hot Air Balloon Flight
1793
Balloons In Civil War
1860s
The First Glider: “Boy Carrier”
1849
Civil War Balloons
First “clear” Aerial Image
1860
First Human Glider
1891
Birds Eye View
1903
Are we there yet?
Wright Brothers Take Off
1903
First Open Cockpit Photographs
World War
I
World War I
1914
Goddard Rocket
1926
Trans-Atlantic Flight
1927
Second Trans-Atlantic Flight
1932
First High Altitude Balloon
1936
1977
Commercial Airplanes
First U2 Spy Plane
1955
Balloon Facts
• 1960 – world high altitude parachute jump
• 1988 – solo world record of greatest height ever
• 1999 – first around the world flight
Balloon Uses Today
• Study astronomy, magnetic fields, cosmic dust,
biology
• Warfare
• Logging operations – for hauling logs
• Fun and Sports
• Weather forecasting
• War against drug traffic
Balloon Research
Sputnik
1957
First Space Probe
1959
First US Weather Satellite
1960
Saturn Rocket
1961
Mercury
1961
Mercury
1962
Gemini
First Space Walk
1965
What would you be feeling?
Apollo
1969
Skylab
1973
Apollo-Soyuz
1975
First Shuttle Mission
1981
Shuttle EVA
First Hubble Telescope Launch
1990
International Space Station
2001
&
beyond
Where do YOU want to go?
?