Hubble Telescope

The Hubble telescope was launched into space on April 1990 on a space shuttle. The name "Hubble" comes from the American astronomer Edwin Hubble. The Hubble was not the first telescope but is well known for being an important research tool.

Space telescopes came around in the 1920's, but the Hubble wasn't around till the 1970's and was supposed to be lunched in 1983. The Hubble had some technical difficulties and was delayed launch until 1990. The Hubble telescope orbits the earth and takes very good pictures with sharp picture quality. The Hubble has also helped discover the theory of the universes expanding.

The Hubble was the only Space Telescope that was supposed to have people working with it in space. But after the the Columbia disaster they canceled going back up to the Hubble in 2002.

Yoda

Yoda is a little green frog type character in the Star Wars universe, starring in the original star wars trilogy. Yoda's first movie was in " the empire strikes back" where he is supposed to train the last Jedi " Luke Sky walker." Yoda also appears in the new movies as well including the animated clone wars. In the Jedi council Yoda was the leader and the most wise. Yoda died at around 900 years old in his swamp on his planet.

Laika Space Dog

Laika (1954 November 3) was the first animal to go into space and enter the orbit. This Soviet dog was launched in the Sputnik 2 and died in the Sputnik. Some believed that the conditions of the launch and space would kill humans which is why they used Laika. So Laika's death was predicted and was the first to die in orbit. Laika died of overheating but led the road for astronomers to continue there journey in space.

Buran Space Shuttle

The Buran Space Shuttle was only launched once on November 15 1988. This Soviet space craft was launched at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. This shuttle was launched into the earths orbit without any people in it. This shuttle was carried up into orbit on a specialized booster rocket called the "energia", the Buran went around the earth in the orbit in 206 minutes of flight and landed just a short distance away from its target on the Baikonur Cosmodrome run way.



Buran space shuttle was supposed to go for a second run in 1993 and should have lasted up to 15-20 days. Instead the Buran got canceled and was never launched because astronomers were worried that the fate of the Buran would be the same as the Columbus.

May 15 2002, the Buran collapsed in its hangar. Due to this disaster 8 workers were killed and the Buran was destroyed along with its energia booster rocket.

Mir space station

The mir space station was the first soviet space station and in fact the first space lab to orbit the earth. This space station was constructed from 1986 to 1996 and was the third generation of space stations. On March 23, 2001, the space station entered our atmosphere and burnt up over the south Pacific Ocean. This mir space station was the longest lasting space mission to ever happen.

Olympus Mons

The Olympus Mons the biggest and tallest mountain on mars. It is said to be dated back to 115 millions years old. The name Olympus Mons is Latin for Mount Olympus. Mount Olympus is much larger than mountain Everest, roughly 3 times bigger. Mount Olympus is a huge volcano and is the biggest known to mankind.

If a person was to stand on mars and look at Olympus Mons they would not be able to see the top. The mountain is so big that even if you were to stand far away you couldn't see the top. The mountain is so vast the even if you were to stand on one side of the top you wouldn't be able to see the other side.

Mount Olympus is a shield volcano which means it has vents all over it which have lava leaking out of it. There are reports of the mountain still having active volcanic activity. There was a collapse in the chamber of the volcano creating a caldera at the peak.

Neil Armstrong

Neil Armstrong (born august 5, 1930) Son of Stephen Koenig Armstrong and Viola Louise Engel, was born in Wapakoneta, Ohio. Armstrong has been an engineer and a test pilot and some call him the American Aviator. Armstrong was a univerity profesor and was the first person to step on the moon. Flying on the gemini 8 he was also the first U.S. citizen into space into space.


Before becoming an astronaut, Armstrong was in the United States Navy andwas in the middle of action in the Korean War. After the war, he served as a test pilot at the National Advisory Committee. He flew over 900 flights in diferent types of aircrafts. As a research pilot, Armstrong served as project pilot on the F-100 Super Sabre aircraft, F-101 Voodoo, and the Lockheed F-104A Starfighter. Neil Armstrong has accomplished alot in his life and is probobly hapily retired at age 79.