I like space. Apollo 13 and The Right Stuff are among my favorite movies. I know lots of random facts.
Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier on October 14,1947.
Sputnik, the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth, was launched on October 4, 1957.
In 1958 as a response to the Sputnik launch, the US Government created the Advanced Research Projects Agency. One of the projects of DARPA was ARPANET, a progenitor of the internet. The first message was sent over the network in 1969.
On April 12,1961 Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel into space. He orbited the earth.
Alan Shepard was the first American in space in Freedom 7. May 5, 1961. He did not orbit the earth.
The digital watches we wear today are more powerful computers than those used in the Apollo Spacecraft.
Apollo 17 was the last time humans walked on the moon. It was in 1972.
In 2004 George W. Bush announced the Constellation program which would send humans back to the moon by 2020. Barack Obama cancelled the program.
At this time, only two space shuttles are still in service. Discovery's last flight is scheduled for September, 2010. Endeavor's last flight is scheduled for November, 2010.
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