Space Technology

& NASA
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Space Technology and Advantages

NASA

Space Programs

Exploration of Mars

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 Space Technology
Space technology is a technology that is related to
entering space, and understanding what is beyond
Earth.

Advantages

Global
Weather GPS Communications
forecasting

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 Effect of Space Technology

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 NASA
• NASA - The National Aeronautics and Space
Administration
• Established by the National Aeronautics and Space
Act on July 29, 1958
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• 1969 1973 1981 1998
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•Apollo •Sky Lab •Space •International
Shuttle Space Station

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 Apollo 11
• First mission, landed human on moon
• Landed on July 20, 1969 with
Astronauts Neil Armstrong and
Buzz Aldrin
• Experiments included soil mechanics,
heat flow and magnetic fields
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 Skylab
• First space station
• It was in orbit from 1973
to 1979
• It included a laboratory
for studying the
effects of
microgravity
• Destroyed in 1979
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 Space Shuttle
• Frequently launchable
and a reusable
vehicle
• It can carry astronauts
and launch satellites
• Today, the space
shuttle is used
mostly to work on the
International Space
Station

Columbia, 1981
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 International Space Station

• It is an internationally
developed research
facility currently being
assembled in low earth
orbit
• Construction of the
station began in 1998
and is scheduled to be
completed by 2011
• It is the largest artificial
satellite in Earth orbit
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 Exploration of Mars
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• NASA aims to put
human on mars by
2037
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Thank You