https://padlet.com/moorejd261/yre5a0549t6ab5z en-us 2023-10-02 16:11:20 UTC 2023-10-03 23:19:32 UTC hello@padlet.com moorejd261 https://padlet.com/moorejd261/yre5a0549t6ab5z/wish/2728881340 On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched the earth's first artificial satellite.]]> 2023-10-02 16:17:56 UTC https://padlet.com/moorejd261/yre5a0549t6ab5z/wish/2728881340 moorejd261 https://padlet.com/moorejd261/yre5a0549t6ab5z/wish/2730998468 A quick response to the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik 1, Explorer 1's success marked the beginning of the U.S. Space Age.]]> 2023-10-03 22:30:02 UTC https://padlet.com/moorejd261/yre5a0549t6ab5z/wish/2730998468 moorejd261 https://padlet.com/moorejd261/yre5a0549t6ab5z/wish/2731000115 President Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958, establishing NASA, the new agency absorbed NACA in whole, including its 8000 employees, an annual budget of $100 million, three major research laboratories, and two small test facilities. NASA has grown tremendously since its inception.]]> 2023-10-03 22:33:08 UTC https://padlet.com/moorejd261/yre5a0549t6ab5z/wish/2731000115 moorejd261 https://padlet.com/moorejd261/yre5a0549t6ab5z/wish/2731001672 Yuri Gagarin became the first human to fly in space on 12 April 1961. Gagarin's flight pushed the Soviet Union ahead in the Space Race with the United States.]]> 2023-10-03 22:35:34 UTC https://padlet.com/moorejd261/yre5a0549t6ab5z/wish/2731001672 moorejd261 https://padlet.com/moorejd261/yre5a0549t6ab5z/wish/2731002709 Alan B. Shepard became the first American in space during a suborbital flight aboard his Mercury capsule named Freedom 7.]]> 2023-10-03 22:37:22 UTC https://padlet.com/moorejd261/yre5a0549t6ab5z/wish/2731002709 moorejd261 https://padlet.com/moorejd261/yre5a0549t6ab5z/wish/2731003291 John Glenn blasted into orbit on February 20, 1962, part of a space race between the United States and the Soviet Union in which the Americans were lagging.]]> 2023-10-03 22:38:24 UTC https://padlet.com/moorejd261/yre5a0549t6ab5z/wish/2731003291 moorejd261 https://padlet.com/moorejd261/yre5a0549t6ab5z/wish/2731004407 Soviet Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman to travel into space.]]> 2023-10-03 22:40:27 UTC https://padlet.com/moorejd261/yre5a0549t6ab5z/wish/2731004407 moorejd261 https://padlet.com/moorejd261/yre5a0549t6ab5z/wish/2731006287 March 16, 1966, the Gemini VIII astronauts made the world's first space docking, quickly followed by the first life-threatening, in-flight emergency in the short history of the U.S. human spaceflight program.]]> 2023-10-03 22:43:20 UTC https://padlet.com/moorejd261/yre5a0549t6ab5z/wish/2731006287 moorejd261 https://padlet.com/moorejd261/yre5a0549t6ab5z/wish/2731008061 On July 20, 1969, a human walked on the Moon for the first time.]]> 2023-10-03 22:46:24 UTC https://padlet.com/moorejd261/yre5a0549t6ab5z/wish/2731008061 moorejd261 https://padlet.com/moorejd261/yre5a0549t6ab5z/wish/2731008783 The space race formally ended on July 17, 1975, when the U.S. and Soviet Union linked up in orbit and shook hands during the Apollo-Soyuz mission.]]> 2023-10-03 22:47:37 UTC https://padlet.com/moorejd261/yre5a0549t6ab5z/wish/2731008783 moorejd261 https://padlet.com/moorejd261/yre5a0549t6ab5z/wish/2731010104 20, 1977, quickly followed by Voyager 1 on Sept. 5. Both probes traveled to Jupiter and Saturn, with Voyager 1 moving faster and reaching them first. Together, the probes unveiled much about the solar system's two largest planets and their moons.]]> 2023-10-03 22:49:59 UTC https://padlet.com/moorejd261/yre5a0549t6ab5z/wish/2731010104 moorejd261 https://padlet.com/moorejd261/yre5a0549t6ab5z/wish/2731011707 Space shuttle Columbia was the first shuttle to reach space when it was launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Apr. 12, 1981.]]> 2023-10-03 22:52:28 UTC https://padlet.com/moorejd261/yre5a0549t6ab5z/wish/2731011707 moorejd261 https://padlet.com/moorejd261/yre5a0549t6ab5z/wish/2731012959 On June 18, 1983, NASA Astronaut Sally K. Ride became the first American woman in space, when she launched with her four crewmates aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-7.]]> 2023-10-03 22:54:29 UTC https://padlet.com/moorejd261/yre5a0549t6ab5z/wish/2731012959 moorejd261 https://padlet.com/moorejd261/yre5a0549t6ab5z/wish/2731015390 The Hubble Space Telescope was a space telescope that was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990 and remains in operation.]]> 2023-10-03 22:58:57 UTC https://padlet.com/moorejd261/yre5a0549t6ab5z/wish/2731015390 moorejd261 https://padlet.com/moorejd261/yre5a0549t6ab5z/wish/2731018135 Mars Pathfinder was launched December 4, 1996 and landed on Mars' Ares Vallis on July 4, 1997. It was designed as a technology demonstration of a new way to deliver an instrumented lander and the first-ever robotic rover to the surface of the red planet.]]> 2023-10-03 23:04:09 UTC https://padlet.com/moorejd261/yre5a0549t6ab5z/wish/2731018135 moorejd261 https://padlet.com/moorejd261/yre5a0549t6ab5z/wish/2731020949 On Dec. 6, 1998, the crew of space shuttle mission STS-88 began construction of the International Space Station, attaching the U.S.-built Unity node and the Russian-built Zarya module together in orbit.]]> 2023-10-03 23:09:17 UTC https://padlet.com/moorejd261/yre5a0549t6ab5z/wish/2731020949 moorejd261 https://padlet.com/moorejd261/yre5a0549t6ab5z/wish/2731022400 On April 30, 2001, US millionaire Dennis Tito arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) via a Russian Soyuz rocket, becoming the world’s first space tourist.]]> 2023-10-03 23:11:43 UTC https://padlet.com/moorejd261/yre5a0549t6ab5z/wish/2731022400 moorejd261 https://padlet.com/moorejd261/yre5a0549t6ab5z/wish/2731025656 Mars Science Laboratory arrived at Mars through technological innovations that tested a completely new landing method. The spacecraft descended on a parachute, then during the final seconds before landing, the landing system fired rockets to allow it to hover while a tether lowered Curiosity to the surface.]]> 2023-10-03 23:16:57 UTC https://padlet.com/moorejd261/yre5a0549t6ab5z/wish/2731025656 moorejd261 https://padlet.com/moorejd261/yre5a0549t6ab5z/wish/2731026221 Perseverance also used the same entry, descent and landing (EDL) strategy as Curiosity. Both rovers hit the Mars atmosphere at tremendous speeds, deployed a supersonic parachute after friction slowed them down enough, and were finally lowered gently to the red dirt on cables by a rocket-powered "sky crane."]]> 2023-10-03 23:17:49 UTC https://padlet.com/moorejd261/yre5a0549t6ab5z/wish/2731026221 moorejd261 https://padlet.com/moorejd261/yre5a0549t6ab5z/wish/2731027660 In July 2022, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope observed El Gordo, a galaxy cluster that existed 6.2 billion years after the big bang.]]> 2023-10-03 23:19:32 UTC https://padlet.com/moorejd261/yre5a0549t6ab5z/wish/2731027660