NASA missions
This is a short story of space exploration seen by the cameras of NASA.
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Explorer 1 probeExplorer 1 was the first electronic device send by USA to the orbit. It was launched od 1 February 1958, 5 months after Russian Sputnik 1 mission. On the photo, the final preparations of the probe. |
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Mercury 3 launchThe launch of Mercury 3 (Freedom 7) on 5 May 1961, with the first American to travel to the space, Alan B. Shepard. However, it was a suborbital flight. The first orbital was made by Mercury 6 with John Glenn abroad. |
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Mariner 4 probeThe first probe in the history that send back to Earth direct photos of another planet (in this case: Mars). |
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The first stepThis is how it all started. The historic first step of a human on the surface of another celestial body filmed by an automated camera of Apollo 11. |
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Apollo 11The lunar module of Apollo 11 on the Moon. |
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Apollo 17The lunar vehicle used during the Apollo 17 mission. It has been the last human landing on the Moon so far. |
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Viking 2 probeIn the mid seventies, there landed two twin probes on Mars called "Vikings". They performed there several automated experiments that spreaded our knowledge about this planet. |
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Voyager 1 probeThe Voyager 1 probe was launched in 1979. It flew near Jupiter and Saturn. Currently this is the farthest from Earth, still working device sent from our planet. |
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Voyager 2 probeVoyager 2 photographed all the four gas giants and discovered a lot of new moons. Currently, it is 79 A.U. from Earth. |
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The start of ColumbiaThe first in the history start of a space shuttle in 1981. In the photo we see Columbia space shuttle, disintegrated in 2003 during the return to Earth. |