https://padlet.com/rmorgan96/k2ypfcswp01uci4m A timeline of key space missions. en-us 2021-09-14 04:36:50 UTC 2021-09-14 05:21:30 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f680.png rmorgan96 https://padlet.com/rmorgan96/k2ypfcswp01uci4m/wish/1738327308 The Vostok 1 was a successful mission that made Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin the first human to experience spaceflight.]]> 2021-09-14 04:42:15 UTC https://padlet.com/rmorgan96/k2ypfcswp01uci4m/wish/1738327308 rmorgan96 https://padlet.com/rmorgan96/k2ypfcswp01uci4m/wish/1738343996 The second mission of the Vostok program, this flight carried cosmonaut Gherman Titov into earth orbit for a full day, in an attempt to discover the effects of prolonged weightlessness on the body.]]> 2021-09-14 04:50:27 UTC https://padlet.com/rmorgan96/k2ypfcswp01uci4m/wish/1738343996 rmorgan96 https://padlet.com/rmorgan96/k2ypfcswp01uci4m/wish/1738346028 Apollo 8 carried the first humans out of earth orbit, and into orbit once around the moon, before returning safely to earth. It was also the first crewed spaceflight to reach an astrononical object other than the earth.]]> 2021-09-14 04:51:27 UTC https://padlet.com/rmorgan96/k2ypfcswp01uci4m/wish/1738346028 rmorgan96 https://padlet.com/rmorgan96/k2ypfcswp01uci4m/wish/1738359372 Apollo 11 was the mission that successfully landed mankind on the surface of the moon, and returned them home safely.]]> 2021-09-14 04:58:03 UTC https://padlet.com/rmorgan96/k2ypfcswp01uci4m/wish/1738359372 rmorgan96 https://padlet.com/rmorgan96/k2ypfcswp01uci4m/wish/1738372785 The R-1 was a Soviet replication of the German V-2 rocket, and was used in the military before being adapted as a launch vehicle for Soviet space exploration]]> 2021-09-14 05:04:32 UTC https://padlet.com/rmorgan96/k2ypfcswp01uci4m/wish/1738372785 rmorgan96 https://padlet.com/rmorgan96/k2ypfcswp01uci4m/wish/1738379744 Explorer 6 was a small American satellite designed to study radiation in the upper earth atmosphere.]]> 2021-09-14 05:07:47 UTC https://padlet.com/rmorgan96/k2ypfcswp01uci4m/wish/1738379744 rmorgan96 https://padlet.com/rmorgan96/k2ypfcswp01uci4m/wish/1738384440 The WAC Corporal was the first rocket developed in the United States for scientific purpose.]]> 2021-09-14 05:09:56 UTC https://padlet.com/rmorgan96/k2ypfcswp01uci4m/wish/1738384440 rmorgan96 https://padlet.com/rmorgan96/k2ypfcswp01uci4m/wish/1738395179 A space probe launched by NASA to study the outer Solar System. Launched in 1977, this probe is still operational over 40 years after launch, and is deep in interstellar space, nearly 24 billion kilometres from earth.]]> 2021-09-14 05:14:53 UTC https://padlet.com/rmorgan96/k2ypfcswp01uci4m/wish/1738395179 rmorgan96 https://padlet.com/rmorgan96/k2ypfcswp01uci4m/wish/1738399869 The Kepler space telescope was launched in 2009 in a bid to discover earth-size planets orbiting other stars, and orbits the sun, trailing the earth.]]> 2021-09-14 05:17:09 UTC https://padlet.com/rmorgan96/k2ypfcswp01uci4m/wish/1738399869 rmorgan96 https://padlet.com/rmorgan96/k2ypfcswp01uci4m/wish/1738403130 Rosetta was a space pobe built and launched by the ESA in 2004. It performed in-depth analysis of a comet, and also provided flybys of Earth, Mars and other comets.]]> 2021-09-14 05:18:57 UTC https://padlet.com/rmorgan96/k2ypfcswp01uci4m/wish/1738403130