Human Spaceflight

• Vocabulary
• The problems of spaceflight
• Solving the problems
• War, competition, and spaceflight
• Homework

Part 2: Starting the Race: Sputnik

• Vocabulary
• Sputnik 1
• Sputnik 2 and Laika
• Explorer 1 and the Van Allen Belt
• Homework

Part 3: Leaving the Planet: The First Human in Space

• Vocabulary
• Vostok and Gagarin
• Take-off
• Free fall
• Re-entry
• The next step
• Homework

Part 4: The Beginning of the Race

• Vocabulary
• Starting the race
• Going outside
• Solving more problems
• Homework

Part 5: To The Moon: The Apollo Program

• "Go fever"
• Apollo 1
• Apollo test flights
• The first Moon landing
• The end of the race
• Homework

Part 6: Back and Forth: The Space Shuttle

• Vocabulary
• Going on with spaceflight
• The space shuttle
• The Challenger disaster
• Where next?
• Homework

Appendix

• Newton's Laws of Motion
• United States Treaty on Outer Space
• Time Line

Unit Review

References

Glossary