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 Space exploration - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
Space exploration is the physical exploration of outer-Earth objects and generally anything that involves the technologies, science, and politics regarding space endeavors.
The first reusable spacecraft, the Space Shuttle, was launched by the USA on the 20th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's flight, on April 12, 1981.
The Space Shuttle is due to be retired by 2010, and due to be replaced by the Crewed Exploration Vehicle which may be itself be reusable.
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 Human spaceflight - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Apollo 10 was the next mission, and it tested the lunar landing craft in lunar orbit without actually landing.
On each mission, two of the three astronauts involved landed on the moon; thus, in the late 1960s and early 1970s NASA's Apollo program landed twelve men on the Moon--returning them all to Earth.
As of 2006 piloted space missions have been carried out by the Soviet Union/Russia, the People's Republic of China, and the United States.
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 Space exploration - Voyager, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Space exploration is the physical exploration of outer-space objects and generally anything that involves the technologies, science, and politics regarding space endeavors.
Two other famous achievements in the early days were putting the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin aboard Vostok 1, and the first people on the Moon, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins aboard Apollo 11.
The European Space Agency (ESA), established in 1975,is an inter-governmental organisation dedicated to exploration of space with currently 17 member states.
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 Everything about Astronaut   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
By convention, a space traveller employed by the Russian Aviation and Space Agency or its Soviet predecessor is called a cosmonaut.
This should be contrasted with the various millionaire space tourists, who have flown as passengers, or minor crew members, on publicly funded flights (generally Russian resupply flights to the ISS).
In 1998 the European Space Agency formed a single astronaut corps of 18 by dissolving the former national corps of France, Germany and Italy.
wikimiki.org /en/Astronaut   (9795 words)

  
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Red Rover, for example, is used with "The Case of the Great Space Exploration." This problem-based activity asks students to research the requirements for crewed and uncrewed missions to Mars.
Created by top experts in the field, the space provides curriculum materials similar to those found in print textbooks, but it also vastly expands the territory of the print textbook and the process by which teachers and students explore subject matter.
By situating these processes in a game space governed by certain rules and procedures, awareness is cultivated in the players of individual interpretive acts and of their place in a progression, or digression.
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