What to do next…
Famous space missions
Your project for over the summer
is to produce either a Power Point
or a written report describing any
two of the following space missions:

Rosetta

Cassini

Kepler

WMAP

Voyager

Apollo

Curiosity
Find out about the main aims of the
mission, when it occurred, what it
found out, etc.
Put information in your own wordsdon’t just copy and paste.
Make sure you explain things clearly
-diagrams are often a good way to
help get ideas across.
Pre-course
Preparation
Task
Did you know…?
The first animals to be launched into
space, in 1947, were fruit flies.
History of space missions
There have been missions to space
since 1942, when the German V2
rocket was launched and reached the
boundary of space, 100km from the
Earth’s surface. Since then there
have been a range of missions with
many different aims but all to further
our understanding of the universe in
which we live.
Space missions are a worldwide
phenomena. To date, citizens of 38
counties have travelled into space,
including most recently from Sweden,
Malaysia and South Korea, although
only the USA, Russia and China have
launched their own manned
spacecrafts.
Today, there are over 2,271
manmade satellites orbiting the
Earth.
The Voyager probe was the first
manmade object to leave the solar
system in 2013, 36 years after it
was launched.
The ISS started to be built in 1998,
with the first crew moving in during
the year 2000. It has been manned
ever since.
A spacecraft needs to reach over
17,000mph to be able to leave
Earth’s orbit