what was the first spacecraft to orbit the earth?
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- Luna 10. Description. Luna 10 was the first spacecraft to go into orbit around the Moon, and the first human-made object to orbit any body beyond the Earth. The primary objectives were to achieve the first lunar orbit, gain experience in orbital operations, presumably as a precursor to astronaut orbital missions, and study the lunar environment.
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Yuri Gagarin On 12 April 1961, the Vostok 3KA-3 (Vostok 1) spacecraft with Gagarin aboard was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome. Gagarin thus became both the first human to travel into space, and the first to orbit the earth. His call sign was Kedr (Russian: кедр, Siberian pine or Cedar).
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- UPDATE: NASA's MESSENGER Enters Mercury Orbit. The Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft has become the first to orbit the solar system's innermost planet. Its findings could unlock the secrets of how Mercury formed, and help scientists to understand what our solar system was like at its very beginning.
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Planetary Science Spacecraft Voyager 2 was launched August 20, 1977 (before Voyager 1), and flew by Jupiter on August 7, 1979, by Saturn on August 26, 1981, by Uranus on January 24, 1986, and by Neptune on August 8, 1989. Voyager 2 took advantage of a rare once-every-189-years alignment to slingshot its way from outer planet to outer planet.
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Spacecraft While Sputnik 1 was the first spacecraft to orbit the Earth, other man-made objects had previously reached an altitude of 100 km, which is the height required by the international organization Federation Fédération Aeronautique aéronautique internationale to count as. a spaceflight
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Blue whale Life Cycle. At birth, a blue whale calf is the largest baby on earth: approximately 8 m long and weighing about 4 tons. They grow at a rate of 90 kg and one inch per day and wean after 7-8 months, once they have reached about 15 m in length, to follow the normal migration pattern alone.They reach sexual maturity at 5-10 years.ife Cycle. At birth, a blue whale calf is the largest baby on earth: approximately 8 m long and weighing about 4 tons. They grow at a rate of 90 kg and one inch per day and wean after 7-8 months, once they have reached about 15 m in length, to follow the normal migration pattern alone.
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Voyager 1 Voyager 1 is a space probe launched by NASA on September 5, 1977. Part of the Voyager program to study the outer Solar System, Voyager 1 launched 16 days after its twin, Voyager 2. Having operated for 39 years, 7 months and 10 days, the spacecraft still communicates with the Deep Space Network to receive routine commands and return data.
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U.S. Space Shuttles The shuttle disintegrated over east Texas on its landing descent to Kennedy Space Center on February 1, 2003, at the conclusion of a microgravity research mission. Columbia was the oldest orbiter in the fleet and the first shuttle to orbit Earth. It was also the heaviest, weighing 178,000 pounds (80,800 kilograms).
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Orion (spacecraft) The two-orbit flight was NASA's first launch of a vehicle for human spaceflight since the retirement of the Space Shuttle fleet in 2011, and the first time that NASA had launched a spacecraft capable of taking humans beyond low earth orbit (LEO) since the launch of Apollo 17 in 1972 (42 years prior).
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Timeline of United States history Further manned space flights occurred in quick succession. On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard piloted the Freedom 7 spacecraft and became the second person, and the first American, to travel into space.
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Pictures of Earth by Planetary Spacecraft Then came the mind-blowing moment of seeing both the Earth and moon together in space. The next picture shows a crescent-shaped Earth and moon – the first of its kind ever taken by a spacecraft – on September 18, 1977. NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft was 7.25 million miles (11.66 million kilometers) from Earth at the time. The moon (top) and Earth as viewed by Voyager in 1977.
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Mariner 9: First Spacecraft to Orbit Mars Mariner 9 was the first spacecraft to orbit another planet. It arrived at Mars in 1971 and changed our perceptions of the Red Planet. Mariner 9's cameras snapped close-up views of the planet's major features, including Mars' polar caps, the vast Valles Marineris canyon, and the Martian moons (Phobos and Deimos).
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- What was the first spacecraft in space?   The first man-made vehicle purpose built to reach space was Sputnik 1 launched on an R-7 rocket by the USSR on October 4 1957. Prior to this, a German V2 rocket had reac…hed the arbitrary limit we call 'space' - 62 miles - by mistake.
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What was the first spaceship to orbit the earth called? The first satellite was called Sputnik. The first spaceship to carry a large living organism was called Sputnik II, or Muttnik since the creature on board was a small dog named Laika. The Russian Vostok space craft carried the first human, Yuri Gagarin, into earth's orbit. He did not, however, orbit the earth.
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The First Photos Taken of Every Planet in Our Solar System On September 5, 1977, NASA began its venture further into the atmosphere with the launch of Voyager 1. This legendary spacecraft now floats far beyond our solar system in interstellar space, but in January, 1979 it began taking the first pictures of Jupiter.
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- UPDATE: NASA's MESSENGER Enters Mercury Orbit The Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft has become the first to orbit the solar system's innermost planet. Its findings could unlock the secrets of how Mercury formed, and help scientists to understand what our solar system was like at its very beginning.
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Sex Addiction Causes & Risk Factors Basics of Sex Addiction. Sex Addiction Causes & Risk Factors. Causes and Risk Factors for Sex Addiction. The exact cause for sex addiction is unknown. Childhood abuse, including sexual abuse, physical abuse, and mental abuse, increases the risk for sex addiction in adulthood.
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Space exploration The launch of the first human-made object to orbit Earth, the Soviet Union's Sputnik 1, on 4 October 1957, and the first Moon landing by the American Apollo 11 mission on 20 July 1969 are often taken as landmarks for this initial period.
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- Artist's concept of Mariner 9, the first probe to orbit Mars. Image credit: NASA We received this question from fourth-grade students in Fresno, California. JPL's Homework Help page provides basic information and suggestions for further research. A probe is a spacecraft that travels through space to collect science information. Probes do not have astronauts. Probes send data back to Earth for scientists to study. The First Probes Sputnik 1 was the first probe to go into space. It was launched on Oct. 4, 1957, by the former Soviet Union. On Jan. 31, 1958, the United States sent a probe called Explorer 1 into space. These first probes studied Earth from space. They also learned what it's like to be in space. This was the beginning of the Space Race between the United States and Soviet Union.
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- YURI GAGARIN: HIS LIFE IN PICTURES. On April 12, 1961 the first earthling escaped the gravity well of planet earth. In the spaceship Vostok 1, Senior Lieutenant Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin orbited earth one time at an altitude of 187 3/4 miles (302 kilometers) for 108 minutes at 18,000 miles an hour. He was the first man to see that the earth was indeed round, indeed mostly water, and indeed magnificent.
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Have any spacecraft or space probes visited Mercury? The first spacecraft to visit Mercury was NASA's Mariner 10. It only orbited the Sun, making three Mercury flyby passes (two extremely close). No spacecraft has ever landed on… Mercury. The NASA probe MESSENGER will be placed in orbit around Mercury in March, 2011.
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- The Vanguard team was still working on a test vehicle (TV-2) designed to test the first stage of the rocket when they learned of the launch of the world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik I, by the USSR on October 4, 1957. On December 2, the Department of Defense announced the imminent launch of TV-3.
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- In April 1961, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin's spacecraft was launched at 9:07, orbited Earth once and landed at 10:55 in the Soviet Union.
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- Space Shuttle, the world's first reusable spacecraft. The US space shuttle, first launched in 1981, was the world's first reusable spacecraft. NASA ran the programme of 135 manned missions. Mission control was located at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, while the shuttles themselves launched from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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List of spacecraft called Sputnik 1 Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to go into orbit, launched 4 October 1957. 2  Sputnik 2, the first spacecraft to carry a living animal (the dog Laika), launched 3 November 1957.  Sputnik 3, a research satellite launched 15 May 1958.