PHY 2390 Chapter Notes - Chapter 20: Extravehicular Activity, Space Tourism, Students For The Exploration And Development Of Space

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Physics
• Course: PHY 2390
• Professor: Christian Gigault

Document Summary

Space exploration use of astronomy space technology to explore outer space: while exploration of space carried out maly by astronomers with telescopes, its physical exploration though conducted both by unmned robotic space probes hum spaceflight. Moon lg by americ apollo 11 mission on 20 july 1969 are often taken as lmarks for this itial period. Soviet space program achieved my of first milestones, cludg first livg beg orbit 1957, first hum spaceflight (yuri gagar aboard vostok 1) 1961, first spacewalk (by alexei leonov) on 18 march. Station (s: with substtial completion of s followg sts-133 march 2011, pls for space exploration by u. Union has advocated mned missions to both moon mars durg 20th 21st century. From 1990s onwards, private terests beg promotg space tourism n public space exploration of. Students terested space have formed seds (students for exploration development of space)