Space

Alan Jean
Yeshvin M.
Neshen Moonesamy
Keshav Chundunsingh

Exploration

Our place in space

H He C N O
We now have the basic ingredients of life

Space exploration is
The discovery and exploration of celestial structures in
outer space by means of continuously evolving and
growing space technology

History

The Space Race

In early 60s there was a ferocious competition between
the United states and the communist Soviet Union for
space exploration

Sputnik
Oct. 4, 1957. The Soviet Union launches a satellite into space named Sputnik 1.
It was a very simple device that took measurements of the upper layer of the atmossphere and sent information by radio signals down to the planet. It orbits every hourand-a-half before it re-entered the atmosphere and burned up 3 months after launch.

First Moon Landing

President Kennedy issued the challenge in 1962 that America NEEDED to go to the
moon because it would be so hard to do so. And less than a decade later, they did.
Nobody else has managed this feat. America just jumped way ahead of Russia in the
space race. On July 20, 1969, the Apollo 11 mission lands on the moon, and Neil
Armstrong utters the famous words, one small step for a man, one giant leap for
mankind.

Voyager 1 & 2

Voyager 2 launched on August 20, 1977, from Cape

Canaveral, Florida aboard a Titan-Centaur rocket. On
September 5, Voyager 1 launched, also from Cape Canaveral