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A-4 rocket. See also V-2 missiles
Agena
Aldrin, Edwin “Buzz”
Anders, Bill
Apollo 1 mission
Apollo 7 mission
Apollo 8 mission
Apollo 9 mission
Apollo 10 mission
Apollo 11 mission
Apollo 13 mission; malfunction aboard; move of crew to CSM; move of crew to LM; plan to get crew back to Earth; safe return from; as successful failure; water supply for crew
Apollo 17 mission
Apollo program: docking space vessels during; goal of; naming of; spacecraft design and function; unmanned tests during
Apollo-Soyuz joint mission
Armstrong, Neil
Astronauts: bravery of; dangers in space for; pilot backgrounds of; selection of
Atomic bombs
Borman, Frank
Bumper rockets
Carpenter, Scott
Chaffee, Roger B.
Cold War
Collins, Michael
Command module and service module (CSM): Apollo 11 mission; Apollo 13 malfunction of; Apollo missions to test; design and function of; docking with LM
Cooper, Gordon
Corned beef sandwich incident
Cunningham, Walter
Dog in space, first
Earth: distance to moon; orbiting of by Glenn; rocket propulsion to escape gravity; speed to break free of gravity
“Earthrise”
Eisele, Donn
EVA (extravehicular activity)
Explorer I satellite
Failure: not an option; possibility of; successful failure
Freedom 7 mission
Friendship 7 mission
Gagarin, Yuri
Gemini 1 mission
Gemini 2 mission
Gemini 3 mission
Gemini 4 mission
Gemini 7 mission
Gemini 8 mission
Gemini 12 mission
Gemini program: astronauts selection for; capsule design; docking space vessels during; goal of
Germany: destruction of scientific research in; division of after WWII; rocket science research in; V-2 development in; V-2 use during WWII
G-forces
Glenn, John
Goddard, Robert
Grisson, Virgil “Gus”
Haise, Fred
Hermes rockets
Hopkins, Mike
Hydrogen bomb (H-bomb)
Jupiter rockets
Kennedy, John F.
Komarov, Vladimir
Kranz, Gene
Leonov, Alexei
Liberty Bell 7 mission
Lovell, Jim
Luna moon missions
Lunar landing module (LM): Apollo 13 crew move to and control of spacecraft from; Apollo missions to test; computing power in; design and function of; docking with CSM; landing on by Apollo 11; landing on moon in
Mach 1
McDivitt, James
Mercury program: astronauts selection for; capsule design; Mercury Control Center; naming of; rocket test launch failures; start of. See also Freedom 7 mission; Friendship 7 mission; Liberty Bell 7 mission
Missiles. See also V-2 missiles
Mission Control, Houston
Moon: challenges of mission to; dark side of; distance from Earth; Kennedy speech about goal of mission to; landing on by Apollo 11; last men on from Apollo 17; Luna missions to; orbiting of by Apollo 8; predictions about Soviet landing on; spacecraft design for trip to; trips to the surface and back; US goal of being first to; walking on
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA): act to create; goal and mission of; mathematicians at; safety commitment of; team effort to support spaceflight; technology development by
Nuclear weapons: arms race and stockpiling of; atomic bombs; development and testing of; research to build long-range missiles; surviving nuclear war
R-7 intercontinental missile
Rockets: destructive potential of; escape from Earth’s gravity with; failures during testing and launch of; invention and development of; liquid-fueled rocket development; long-range missiles research; multistage rocket development; science behind; US military programs
Satellites: Soviet development and launch of; US development and launch of
Saturn V rocket
Schirra, Walter “Wally”
Scientific method
Scott, David
Shepard, Alan
Slayton, Deke
Soviet Union/Russia: failures in space program of; first human in space; nuclear weapon development and testing by; power of after WWII; rocket research in; safety of space program in; space program of; successes in space program of; tensions between US and; V-2s gathered by; V-2 testing and launch by
Soyuz 1 mission
Soyuz spacecraft
Space: dangers to humans in; first artificial object in; ongoing programs to explore; reasons for exploring; weightlessness in
Spacecraft: Apollo spacecraft; design, building, and testing of; docking vessels together; Gemini capsules; hatch-closing problem; materials for; Mercury capsules; thrusters to reenter Earth’s atmosphere
Spaceflight: advances in technology to allow; first American in space; first human in space; joint space programs; NASA goal and mission; radio blackout during reentry; team effort to support; von Braun as father of modern
Spaceflight accidents: Apollo 1 mission; deaths during; mission reorganization after; Soyuz 1 mission
Space race
Space shuttle program
Space stations
Space walk
Sputnik 1
Sputnik 2
Sputnik 3
Stafford, Tom
Swigert, Jack
Timeline
Titan II rocket
Training, deaths during
Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin
TV-3 Vanguard rocket
United States (US): first American in space; German scientists move to; power of after WWII; rocket research in; tensions between Soviets and; V-2 research in
V-2 missiles
von Braun, Wernher; concern about misuse of rockets; as father of modern spaceflight; move to US by; rocket development by; space exploration interests of; US government work of; V-2 development by
Voskhod 1 mission
Voskhod 2 mission
Vostok 1 mission
Weapons: arming of V-2s with; arms race. See also nuclear weapons
White, Ed
World War II (WWII)
Yeager, Chuck
Young, John
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