Missions

Use this page to record what you find out about missions to space; remember to make good use of sub-headings and add your citations to the 'Bibliography' page.

Jean-Francois Clervoy Jean-Francois graduated as a flight test engineer. Jean- Francoi has been in space 3 times [he is the first french/European astronaut to go to space that many times]. On his second flight he had to repair the Hubble telescope with his crew.

Juno - On the mission Juno, NASA is sending a space-ship to Jupiter to observe how much water is in Jupiter’s atmosphere, it will be measuring composition, cloud-formations, temperature, and other properties. This spacecraft will launch in August 2011, and will return July 2016. It’s a 5 year cruise to Jupiter [Although it takes 2 years to get there, 1 year to observe, and 2 years to get back.] Gravity Probe B Nasa's Gravity probe B was sent up to put Albert Einstein's theory about gravity to the test. It is testing his theory on relativity based on orbiting gyroscopes. Sceintific results were published april 2007. The experiment was a collaboration between two Stanford University Programs.

New Horiozons New Horiozons is an expedition sent to Pluto and is due to arrive in 2015. It was launched in 2006 due to the extreme conditions and distance of Pluto New Horiozons will not be carrying humans. It will however be placing a satelite on Pluto to take pictures of what was once considered a planet by Earth's greatest sceintists and what is still even today a subject of debate: Pluto.

Apollo 13 Direct Quote: 'Houston we have a poblem..."

April 11, 1970 Apollo 13 was launched a 1:13 P.M. Their goal was to reach the moon in 4 days but one of the oxegyn tanks exploded and then half of the shuttle exploded because of it. The crew suffered from to much carban dioxide and lack of water. Everybody in the control center was working on getting the crew back before the fuel ran out. When they finally arrived every body was very relieved espeicially their families.

Apollo 1, Apollo 1 didn't even make it space. There was something wrong in the simulator that they were practicing with,and when they pressed one of the buttons and... BOOM! The simulator burst into flames! When the astronauts were trying to open the hatch to get out, it was stuck. Everybody on the outside was trying to open it too but soon enough the astronauts lost their lives in a system mishap.

Apollo 11, Apollo 11 was the first Apollo mission to succesfully go to the moon and back.When Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon for the first time he quoted, "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 140%; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Julie Payette <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 140%; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">STS96-served as a mission in specialest, was reasponsible for the station sytems supervized the space walk and opetrated the Canadarm robotic arm. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 140%; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">STS127-she operated all three robotic arms. Before joining the space program she conducted research in computer sytems.After her basic training in Canada she worked as a technical adviser. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">

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From the years 1968-1972 men from Earth (Apollo astronauts) tested a new spacecraft and traveled to the moon and other uncharted destinations.
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