Space Travel 101: Fundamentals of Space Travel


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In unmanned missions, spacecraft have traveled through space to carry out missions that are too dangerous for humans to accomplish. Read on to learn how and why countries have undertaken various missions as well as what challenges they have faced. Here we will cover the more famous unmanned missions.

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Mariner 10	This American mission was the first to use the gravitational pull of one planet to reach another planet. >> Click here for more info
Deep Space 1	This American mission tested twelve advanced technologies to benefit future space travel... >> Click here for more info
Magellan	The Magellan mission was when the American Magellan took pictures of and collected information on Venus... >> Click here for more info
Mars Exploration Rover	As of February 2004, the American Mars Exploration Rover Mission is collecting data from rocks and soils from the surface of Mars... >> Click here for more info
Mars Pathfinder	This American mission to explore Mars used a lander spacecraft and a rover to collect over 17000 images... >> Click here for more info
Sputnik 1	During the Cold War, this Russian mission took the first satellite into orbit around Earth... >> Click here for more info
Sputnik 2	Sputnik 2 sent the first life, a dog named Laika, into orbit around earth... >> Click here for more info
Voyager 1 / Voyager 2	Voyagers 1 and 2 were American missions that explored Uranus and Neptune for the first time... >> Click here for more info
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