|
 Ever
since the beginning of man, people have stared up at the heavens and
wondered what was up there. That curiosity started space exploration.
Some people have explored space without ever leaving the ground. This
space exploration started with people like Galileo, Copernicus and
William Herschel. Men and women discovered much about what they could
see with the naked eye and many of the things they could see with
telescopes. From there the next step was to explore space from the
heavens, sending unmanned probes, and eventually human beings, into
space. Most of the famous space explorers, have become famous in the
last 40 years. All of the manned missions started with the first man in
space: Yuri Guragin. Some of the first Americans in space included John
Glenn, Neil Armstrong and many others. Now there are so many astronauts,
there names are not even household words.
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Explorers |
| The first person ever in
space. |
Yuri Gagain |
Alan Shepherd |
The first
American in space. |
| The first American
to orbit the Earth. |
John Glenn |
Donald Slayton |
Grounded
two times by different problems |
| The
first man on the moon. |
Neil Armstrong |
Buzz Aldrin
|
The second
man on the moon.
|
| The
first American woman in space. |
Sally Ride |
Alan Bean |
The
forth man on the Moon. |
| Was
chosen to be the first teacher in space. |
Christa McAuliffe |
Gus Grissom |
Died
in the Apollo 1 explosion. |
| Logged
835 hours in space |
John Young |
 Story
Musgrave |
Earned
many college degrees
even though he was a high school drop out. |
| Commander
of Apollo 13. |
James Lovell |
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