Steps in Space
Steps in space Claude Nicollier Lausanne Switzerland Space Science School Si Racha, Thailand October 17, 2016 Outline Human spaceflight • A little bit of history, all the way to to ISS and SpaceX • Personal experience • Into the Solar System BIG BANG, 13,7 billion years ago, setting the Universe in expansion Evolving Universe, in constant motion! Only 3 to 4 centuries ago, we have the the pioneers in astronomy and celestial mechanics Tycho Brahe Galileo Galilei Johannes Kepler Isaac Newton (1546-1601) (1564-1642) (1571-1630) (1642-1726) Pioneers of rocket theory and practice 1 Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Robert H. Goddard (1857-1935) (1882-1945) Pioneers of rocket theory and practice 2 Hermann Oberth Wernher von Braun (1894-1989) (1912-1977) Achievments in the early space programs, until 1965 Sputnik 1 / Explorer 1 – First satellites – 1957 / 1958 ● Sputnik 1 ● October 4, 1957 ● First artificial satellite around the Earth ● Bip, bip… ● Explorer 1 ● January 31, 1958 ● Lifetime of 12 years ● Discovery of Van Allen’s radiation belts Laïka – First living creature in Earth orbit – November 3, 1957 Ham – First tasks performed during spaceflight – January 31, 1961 Yuri Gagarin – First human in space – April 12, 1961 Alan Shepard – First US astronaut – May 5, 1961 Valentina Tereshkova – First woman in space – June 16, 1963 Alexei Leonov – First spacewalk – March 18, 1965 Ed White – First US spacewalk – June 3, 1965 To the Moon! John F. Kennedy's speech – May 25, 1961 “We choose to go to the Moon in this decade, not because it is easy, but because it
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