Space Exploration Posters, Prints and Charts
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Space Missiles Art Print

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Space Explorers poster chart of vehicles used in the space age.

Telescope - Inventions that Changed the World -
Wall Poster

. . . The invention of the telescope completely altered mankind's view of the universe. With the telescope, scientists could see that other planets existed. They could see that the sun was only one of billions of stars in the galaxy, and that the universe was filled iwth other galaxies. These discoveries helped people realize that Earth is NOT the center of the universe, and they raised the possibility that life might exist elsewhere. In a way, the invention of the telescope marked the beginning of human exploration of space. From the moment Galileo first aimed his telescope at the night sky, humans have longed to visit other worlds. And this longing continues to pull us toward the stars. <more text>

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Inventions that Changed
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Liquid-Fuel Rocket Wall Poster
Robert H. Goddard
b. 10-5-1882; Massachusetts
d. 8-10-1945

It is hard to believe, but the most important flight in the history of space travel may have been the one that took place on a Massachusetts farm on March 16, 1926. The flight lasted only 2.5 seconds and reached a height of only 41 feet. But it marked the first successful test of a new invention – the liquid fuel rocket. . . . <more text>

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
b. 9-17-1857; Russian Empire
d. 9-19-1935

Because of a childhood illness Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky, Russian scientist and pioneer of space travel, was nearly deaf. His thesis,"The Exploration of Cosmic Space by Means of Reaction Devices", was published in 1903; he also wrote extensively on space and related subjects, including science fiction novels, earning a living as a math teacher. (The television series, Star Trek: The Next Generation honored him by naming a fictional space ship the K. E. Tsiolkovsky.)

Wernher von Braun
b. 3-23-1912; Kingdom of Prussia
d. 6-16-1977; Alexandria, VA

Wernher von Braun, one of the most notable rocket scientist of the 20th century, developed the V-2 rocket for the German military during World War II. He was brought to the United States after the war to work on the intercontinental ballistic missile program (ICBM), then joined NASA as the director the the Marshall Space Flight Center developing the Saturn V launch vehicle.

Ten Days that Shook the Nation Series - Sputnik Wall Poster

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Eagle was the name given to the lunar module of the 1969 United States Apollo 11 mission. It was the first manned Earth vehicle to land on the Moon, 7-20-1969.

"Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed." Buzz Aldrin

“That’s one small step for man,
one giant leap for mankind.” Neil Armstrong

Ten Days that Shook the Nation - The Moon Landing, 1969 Wall Poster

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First Man on the Moon Historic Headlines Poster

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Man's Greatest Adventure, from the Earth to the Moon

The Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched 9-5-1977, is the farthest human-made object from Earth at 9.6 billion miles as of 8-10-2007.

Voyager I's original targets were the planets Jupiter and Saturn, is now detecting the conditions of the heliosheath and heliopause, the region between the Solar System and interstellar space.

Voyager is currently operational and the theromoelectric generators, which have far outlived their expected lifespan, are now projected to maintain communication with Earth till around 2020.

The first fully functional Shuttle Orbiter, the Columbia, was first launched on 4-12-1981.

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The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a telescope in orbit around the Earth named after astronomer Edwin Hubble. First conceived in 1946, the HST was launched in 1990.

EVA stands for extra vehicular activity: work done by an astronaut away from the Earth and outside of his or her spacecraft.

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Cassini - Huygens, a joint NASA/ESA/ASI robotic spacecraft mission studying the planet Saturn and its moons, was launched on October 15, 1997 and entered into orbit around Saturn on July 1, 2004.

The spacecraft consists of two main elements: the NASA Cassini orbiter, named after the Italian-French astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini, and the ESA Huygens probe, named after the Dutch astronomer, mathematician and physicist Christiaan Huygens.

Apollo 13 Movie Poster

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Mission to Mir - IMAX Release Movie Poster

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