User:Trevor MacInnis/Research questions

1. Find out about one of these astronauts:

Yuri Gagarin          First person in space Alan Shepard          First U.S. astronaut John Glenn            First American to orbit Earth Valentina Tereshkova  First woman in space Virgil "Gus" Grissom  One of the first astronauts in Project Gemini, later killed in Apollo 1 test flight Ed White              First U.S. astronaut to walk in space, also killed in Apollo 1 Neil Armstrong        First person to walk on the moon Edwin (Buzz) Aldren   Also walked on the moon with Armstrong Michael Collins       Piloted spacecraft while first men on moon James Lovell          One of three astronauts on ill-fated Apollo 13 mission, chronicled in recent movie, Apollo 13 Sally Ride            First U.S. woman in space Guy Bluford           First African-American in space Ellison Onizuka       First Asian-American in space, died in the Challenger explosion Rudolfo Vela-Neri     First Hispanic in space Christa McAuliffe     Won contest to be first teacher in space, also died in the Challenger explosion

2. Find out about one of these NASA programs:

Manned Flight:         Robotic  Flight: Project Mercury        Mariner missions Project Gemini         Pioneer missions Project Apollo         Viking missions space shuttles         Voyager missions Galileo mission Hubble Space Telescope What were its objectives? When did it occur? How many missions did it have? What were its most famous missions and why? What did it accomplish?

3. What probes have been sent to (pick one):

Mercury? Venus? Mars? Jupiter? Saturn? Uranus? Neptune? Pluto? the sun? the moon? asteroids? Halley's Comet?

What scientific information was gained on these missions?

note: Some of this material overlaps with Question 2, Robotic Flight; it's a different way to find out much of the same information.)

4. Find out about the following space stations:

* Salyut 1 (USSR) * Skylab (U.S.) * Mir (USSR, now Russia)

* Why were they built? * What was done on them? * What has been learned because of them?

5. Find out about the Russian space program. Choose from: * Manned Missions 1957 (Sputnik) through 1975 (Apollo-Soyuz Test Project) * Moon Missions 1959 (Luna 2) through 1976 (Luna 24) * Missions to Planets (Venera crafts to Venus, Phobos Mission and Mars '96 to Mars) * Russian space stations (Salyut and Mir projects) (note: this part of the question overlaps with question 4)