Space Exploration

A Decade of Space
A Sixth Grade Pathfinder

Space exploration began as a dream and was imagined by science fiction writers and comic strip designers. The science of space exploration came to fruition in the mid-twentieth century and continues to advance as new discoveries and technologies create opportunities and lead to successes.

In order to appreciate the scope of what has been accomplished, students will research in a given decade from 1950- 2010 and choose significant people and events that are highlights in each era. There are four topics: Unmanned Spacecraft (probes, satellites, robotics); Space Exploration (planets, comets, asteroids, meteors); People who Influenced Space Exploration (astronauts, engineers, politicians); and Space Travel (rockets, shuttles, space stations).

Students will combine their individual topical work with their group to produce a single timeline for each decade. Students must be able to explain why their choices are significant and how they influenced future developments.


Books	Internet Resources Databases	Internet Resources Websites	Keywords	Dewey numbers

Books

You can view a list of the books that are currently on the reference cart by opening the Catalog in Destiny. In the sidebar on the left, click on "Resource Lists." Click the tab marked "Public Lists", then click the "View" button to see "Space Exploration."

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Internet Resources

Marshall Cavendish Digital Reference (Trial subscription)

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You must create a unique login name. Use your network login and password but insert the letters bms before your name.
Use the keywords below to begin your search.

Websites

NASA Information on all topics and decades

ADDITIONAL SITES

Space in General

http://my.execpc.com/~culp/space/timeline.html

http://www.skyscopes.com/scope/timeline.html

Space by Decade

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/timeline.html

http://library.thinkquest.org/C0116050/txtversion/telescope/timeline.html

http://www.history.com/minisite.do?content_type=Minisite_Generic&content_type_id=51655&display_order=5&mini_id=1438

Space Exploration

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/chrono.html

http://www.century-of-flight.freeola.com/Aviation%20history/space/space%20flight%20chronology1.htm

People

http://www.thespacerace.com/people/index.php

Manned space travel

http://www.thespacerace.com/programs.php

http://www.windows.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/tour_def/space_missions/manned_table.html

Unmanned Spacecraft (probes, satellites, robotics)

http://www.seasky.org/spacexp/sky5d2.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/exploration/missiontimeline/

http://www.timelines.info/history/ages_and_periods/the_modern_world/science_and_technology/space_exploration/

http://www.spacetoday.org/History/ExplorationTimeline.html#1959

Space Exploration (planets, comets, asteroids, meteors)

http://www.seasky.org/spacexp/sky5d2.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/exploration/missiontimeline/

http://www.timelines.info/history/ages_and_periods/the_modern_world/science_and_technology/space_exploration/

People who Influenced Space Exploration

http://www.seasky.org/spacexp/sky5d2.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/exploration/missiontimeline/

http://www.timelines.info/history/ages_and_periods/the_modern_world/science_and_technology/space_exploration/

Space Travel (rockets, shuttles, space stations)

http://www.seasky.org/spacexp/sky5d2.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/exploration/missiontimeline/

http://www.timelines.info/history/ages_and_periods/the_modern_world/science_and_technology/space_exploration/

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Keywords

Unmanned Spacecrafts	Space Exploration	People	Space Travel
Satelites	Moon	Yuri Gagarin	Skylab
Probes	Sun	J. F. Kennedy	Apollo
Artificial Satelites	Earth	Nixon	Columbia
Lunar rovers	Jupiter	Alan Shepard	Space Shuttle
Weather satellites	Mars	Laika	Rocket
Space robotics	Mercury	John Glenn	Space Station
Viking	Venus	Gherman Titov	Mir
Pioneer	Saturn	Valentia Tereshkova	European Space Agency
Soyuz	Meteor	Alexei A. Leonov	NASA
Voyager	Comets	James A. Lovell, Jr	SpaceshipOne
Luna	Asteroids	Neil Armstrong	Sputnik
Salyut	Uranus	Cosmonauts	Gemini
Venera	Neptune	Astronauts	Space tragedies
NEAR	Pluto	Tourist in space	International Space Station
Gallileo	Life on planets	Sally Ride
	Water on planets	Buzz Aldrin
	Moons of planets	Charlie Duke
	asteroid belt	Shuttle Crew
	Kyper belt	Spacewalk
	Hubble Telescope	Female in space
	Halley’s comet	Space endurance
		Mae C. Jamison

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Dewey Numbers

520 Astronomy
522 Astronomical equipment (i.e. telescopes)
523.2 Solar system
523.3 Moon
523.4 Planets
523.5 Meteors
523.6 Comets
523.7 Sun
523.8 Stars
523.9 Satellites (moons and rings)

629.1 Aerospace engineering
629.4 Astronautics
629.43 Unmanned spaceflight
629.44 Auxiliary spacecraft (shuttles, stations)
629.45 Manned spaceflight
629.46 Engineering unmanned spacecraft (artificial satellites)
629.47 Astronautical engineering (misc. i.e. spacesuits)
629.8 Automatic control engineering (robotics)

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This page last updated 22 May 2008

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