Tacoma Astronomical Society welcomes you to public night Space Exploration

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Tacoma Astronomical Society welcomes you to
public nightSpace Exploration
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"I am convinced that human flight is both
possible and practical."
Wilber Wright 1899
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Joseph and Jacques MontgolfierJune 1783
Wilber and Orville Wright Dec. 17th, 1903
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"The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind
cannot stay in the cradle forever.      
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
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• First, I believe that this nation should commit
  itself to achieving the goal, before this decade
  is out, of landing a man on the moon and
  returning him safely to the earth. No single
  space project in this period will be more
  impressive to mankind, or more important for the
  long-range exploration of space and none will be
  so difficult or expensive to accomplish.
• Speech to Congress May 25, 1961
• (picture at Rice University Sept. 12, 1962

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Do you remember when?
First human in space?
First creature in space?
First space program causality?
First person on the moon?
First woman in space?
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First space walk?
First picture of Mars?
First probe to soft land on Venus and transmit
for 23 minutes?
First inter-planetary rover?
First panoramic view from Mars?
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Just a few missions!
Mariner 10, Messenger (2004)
Mariner (2, 5,10) Pioneer Venus, Pioneer 12 and
13, Venera (7, 9, 10, 13), Magellan, Galileo and
about 12 others!
Mariner (3,4,6,7,9) 2 Viking landers, Mars
(3,5,7) Mars Odyssey, Pathfinder, Global
Surveyor, Mars Express, MER Spirit and Opportunity
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Pioneer 10 and 11, Voyager 1 and 2, Ulysses,
Galileo, Cassini
Pioneer 11, Voyager 1 and 2, Cassini (on the way)
Voyager 2
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Ulysses, Wind, ACE, SOHO, Cluster, Double Star,
Deep Space COS-B, Exosat, Hipparcos, Hubble,
Integral, ISO, IUE, XXM-Newton
Comets Giotto, Stardust
Moon Luna 2, Pioneer, Apollo, Ranger (7,8,9),
Surveyor 1 and 6, Lunar Orbiter, Lunar
Prospector, Hiten, Clementine, Lunar Prospector,
Smart-1
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Voyager
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Stardust
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Spirit
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There are times when you devote yourself to a
higher cause than personal safety.
John Glenn
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• Jan. 27, 1967 Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward
  White and Roger Chaffee
• April 24, 1967 Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir
  Komarov
• June 29, 1971 Cosmonauts Georgy Dobrovolsky,
  Vladislav Volkov and Viktor Patsayev
• Jan. 28, 1986 Christa McAuliffe, Francis "Dick"
  Scobee, Michael Smith, Ellison Onizuka, Judith
  Resnik, Ronald McNair and Gregory Jarvis.
• Feb. 1, 2003 William McCool, Rick Husband,
  Michael Anderson, Kalpana Chawla, David Brown,
  Laurel Clark and Ilan Ramon.

If we die, we want people to accept it. We're in
a risky business, and we hope that if anything
happens to us it will not delay the program. The
conquest of space is worth the risk of life.
-- Gus Grissom