Cassini mission, 27, 136-137, 136f
Galileo mission, 26, 135-136, 135f
Pioneer mission, 133
Voyager mission, 26, 133-135, 134f
See also Specific planets
Fire, Mir space station, 77
The First Men on the Moon (Wells), 3
Firsts
American man in space, 7, 20
American spacecraft to land safely on Mars, 118
artificial satellite launched into orbit, 6
artificial satellite to orbit Mars, 118
Chinese manned spaceflight, 49
dog in space, 7
hot air balloon flight, 2
human casualty of the space program, 9, 46
human-made object to leave the solar system, 133
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), 45
liquid propelled rocket flight, 5
man in space, 7, 45
manned Moon landing, 9, 22-23
Mars probe, 12
meteorological satellite, 12
mission to outer solar system, 133
NASA space telescope, 96
powered aircraft flight, 3
Soviet Space program firsts, 46-47
spacecraft in orbit around a far planet, 135
spacecraft to fly by Uranus and Neptune, 134
spacecraft to investigate Jupiter, 133
spacecraft to observe Jupiter's polar regions, 133
spacecraft to travel around the Moon and return to Earth, 9
spacecraft to travel through the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, 133
successful flyby of Mars, 118
transoceanic flight, 3
U.S. woman in space, 32
Flammarion, Camille, 114
France, 49
Freedom 7, 7
From Earth to the Moon (Verne), 2
Future
far planet exploration, 137
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), 102
Mars exploration, 128
NASA programs, 34-35
solar missions, 110
space shuttle program, 67-69
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