when was the first space shuttle launch?
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On April 12, 1981, 25 years ago, the Space Shuttle Columbia became the first shuttle to orbit the Earth.
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Mission: STS-121 - 18th International Space Station Flight (ULF1.1) - Multi-Purpose Logistics Module\nVehicle: Discovery (OV-103)\nLocation: Launch Pad 39B\nLaunch Date: July 1, 2006, 3:49 p.m. EDT\nLaunch Pad: 39B\nCrew: Lindsey, Kelly, Sellers, Fossum, Nowak, Wilson and Reiter\nInclination/Orbit Altitude: 51.6 degrees/122 nautical miles
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On July 20, 1969, Commander Neil Armstrong became the first man on the moon. He said the historic words, "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."\n\nA camera in the Lunar Module provided live television coverage as Neil Armstrong climbed down the ladder to the surface of the moon.
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The first moon landing by a human was that of American Neil Armstrong, Commander of the Apollo 11 mission. On July 20, 1969, while their teammate Michael Collins controlled the command module "Columbia," Armstrong, accompanied by Buzz Aldrin, landed the lunar module, "Eagle" on the surface of the moon at 4:17 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. This article covers the events immediately surrounding the successful moon landing.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_landing
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Sputnik 1 - First Artificial Satellite In Space. The world, especially the US, was shocked, when on October 4, 1957, the USSR launched the world's first Artificial Satellite to space
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Sputnik 1957\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite#The_first_artificial_satellite
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Early in October 1957 communications stations started picking up a regular beeping noise coming from space. \n\nThe signals were coming from Russia's Sputnik 1, the world's first man-made satellite. The launch of Sputnik caused a panic in Washington, as the USA realised how far it had fallen behind in the space race. The worries deepened three months later, when a Vanguard rocket with America's first satellite exploded two seconds after ignition.\n\nIt was January 1958 before a Jupiter rocket successfully launched Explorer 1, the first American satellite.
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Soviet Union.\n"The first man-made object to land on the Moon was Luna 2 in 1959, the first photographs of the otherwise occluded far side of the Moon were made by Luna 3 in the same year, and the first people to land on the Moon came aboard Apollo 11 in 1969."
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The first rocket which could fly high enough to get into space was the V2 missile which was first launched by Germany in 1942. The first rocket which actually launched something into space was used to launch Sputnik, the first satellite, on October 4, 1957. The rocket that launched Sputnik was a R-7 ICBM rocket
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Yes Fox News will show the shuttle launch. Especially since recent problems with the foam falling off and also because it has been quite a while since the last launch. This will be a news story based on history.
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Vostok 1 took Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into orbit on April 12, 1961.
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umm which astrolab are you talking about?\nThe one I think of right away was SKYLAB which was launch\nin the 70's. Throughout the 80's and 90's the shuttle carried several astrolab missions. So I am not sure which one\nyou are talking about.\n\nAs for how it works? well what do you mean by that?\nhow did it get placed in orbit? what experiments they did?\nhow was it powered? what countries were involved?\nplease narrow down your question.\n\nBut here is the NASA link to SKYLAB, which has\nall the information you could want about it.\nhttp://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/history/skylab/skylab.htm
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Sharon Christa Corrigan McAuliffe (September 2, 1948–January 28, 1986) was an American teacher from New Hampshire who was selected from among more than 11,000 applicants to be the first teacher in space. She perished in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
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Check the NASA website, they have descriptions of all of the space shuttle flights.
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The Soviet Luna program had launched Luna 1, the first spacecraft to fly past the moon on January 4, 1959. Its successor, Luna 2, was the first spacecraft to land on the moon, while Luna 3 took the first photos of the far side of the moon on October 7, 1959. Luna 9, launched by the USSR on February 3, 1966, performed the first "soft landing" on the moon; and Luna 10 became the first spacecraft to orbit the moon on April 3, 1966.\n\nThere have been no Russian cosmonauts on the surface.\n\nFollow the link for more information.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_landing
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I can barely remember that day in kindergarten. All the adults standing around in disbelief at what had happened. I think even at that age I was shocked as I watched the television in the general assembly area. One of the teachers left the room grief stricken after watching the news footage just once. Now many years later the shuttles still continue to launch. The brave men and women still going into space as if in tribute to all those who have died pursuing the goal of space travel. They carry on in the face of tragedy, every step forwards honoring the challenger astronauts.
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well  sence its a school report   but all information concerning   the  first man on the moon to  first trip into outspace  ,  the first wome  to ever  be  in a space shuttle that  did not make  it cause the shuttle  blew  up  right after taking  off  , put the infoarmation bout the training and  long  hours  of weightlessness they go through  etc .  put names date  pictures etc , how many attempts were made  before  a sucessfull alunch was made etc