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The Voyager 1 spacecraft is a 722-kilogram (1,592-lb) robotic American space probe launched by NASA on September 5, 1977, to study the outer Solar System and eventually interstellar space. Operating for 33 years, 6 months, and 16 days, the spacecraft receives routine commands and transmits data back to the Deep Space Network. It was the first probe to leave the Solar System and is the farthest human-made object from Earth.
Skylab was the United States' first space station, and the second visited by a human crew after the Soviet Salyut 1. The only station NASA has launched independently, the 77-ton[1] outpost was in Earth orbit from 1973 to 1979 and was visited by crews three times between 1973 and 1974. It was launched unmanned by a modified Saturn V rocket, and manned missions to the station were made by a Command/Service Module (CSM) atop the smaller Saturn IB. During its operational life, numerous scientific experiments were conducted, and crews were able to confirm the existence of coronal holes in the Sun. Before plans to refurbish and reuse Skylab with the Space Shuttle could begin, the station reentered Earth's atmosphere and disintegrated in 1979, with debris striking portions of Western Australia.
NASA's Space Shuttle program, officially called Space Transportation System (STS), is the United States government's current manned launch vehicle. The winged Space Shuttle orbiter is launched vertically, usually carrying five to seven astronauts (although eight have been carried) and up to 50,000 lb (22 700 kg) of payload into low earth orbit. When its mission is complete, the shuttle can independently move itself out of orbit using its Maneuvering System (it orients itself appropriately and fires its main OMS engines, thus slowing it down) and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere. During descent and landing the orbiter acts as a re-entry vehicle and a glider, using its OMS system and flight surfaces to make adjustments.
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NASA's Space Shuttle program, officially called Space Transportation System (STS), is the United States government's current manned launch vehicle. The winged Space Shuttle orbiter is launched vertically, usually carrying five to seven astronauts (although eight have been carried) and up to 50,000 lb (22 700 kg) of payload into low earth orbit. When its mission is complete, the shuttle can independently move itself out of orbit using its Maneuvering System (it orients itself appropriately and fires its main OMS engines, thus slowing it down) and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere. During descent and landing the orbiter acts as a re-entry vehicle and a glider, using its OMS system and flight surfaces to make adjustments.
Space Shuttle program, officially called Space Transportation System (STS), is the United States government's current manned launch vehicle. The winged Space Shuttle orbiter is launched vertically, usually carrying five to seven astronauts (although eight have been carried) and up to 50,000 lb (22 700 kg) of payload into low earth orbit. When its mission is complete, the shuttle can independently move itself out of orbit using its Maneuvering System (it orients itself appropriately and fires its main OMS engines, thus slowing it down) and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.
The largest production model of the Saturn family of rockets, the Saturn V was designed under the direction of Wernher von Braun and Arthur Rudolph at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, with Boeing, North American Aviation, Douglas Aircraft Company, and IBM as the lead contractors. Von Braun's design was based in part on his work on the Aggregate series of rockets, especially the A-10, A-11, and A-12, in Germany during World War II.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_V
The United States space effort that first put man on the moon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program
The Gemini program was established to use the experiences from Mercury to develop the maneuvers needed for the Apollo moon program later on. Along with the new two man Gemini spacecraft, came two more groups of astronauts.
http://www.spaceflighthistory.com/geminiprogram.htm
This program was created to test man's ability to survive in the harsh environment of space; and to test the manuevers and hardware needed for longer duration and more detailed space exploration.
http://www.spaceflighthistory.com/mercuryprogram.htm
The Pioneer program is a series of United States unmanned space missions that was designed for planetary exploration. There were a number of such missions in the program, but the most notable were Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11, which explored the outer planets and left the solar system. Both carry a golden plaque, depicting a man and a woman and information about the origin and the creators of the probes, should any extraterrestrials find them someday.
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