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Space Exploration Heroes

World Space Week is October 4 - 10

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World Space Week is "an international celebration of science and technology, and their contribution to the betterment of the human condition." The United Nations General Assembly declared in 1999 that World Space Week will be held each year from October 4-10. These dates commemorate two important events:

*October 4, 1957 - The launch of the first human-made Earth satellite, Sputnik 1, thus opening the way for space exploration.

*October 10, 1967 - The signing of the Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies.


Stories

Commander Chris Hadfield

By: Wendy Jewell from The My Hero Project
Commander Chris Hadfield is the first Canadian to become the commander of the International Space Station.

Yuri Gagarin

By: Gleb from Victoria
"Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it!"

Mae Jemison

By: Christian Walsh
Mae Jemison dreamed of going to space since childhood.

Valentina Tereshkova

By: Alina from Novosibirsk
Valentina Tereshkova is the first woman and first civilian to fly in space.

Neil A. Armstrong

By: Soo Han from San Diego
Neil A. Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon.

Kenji Williams

By: David Kelly
Kenji Williams creates music and films that celebrate the earth from the perspective of space.

Kenji Williams - Founder & Director of Bella Gaia - in Conversation with The MY HERO Project

By: Wendy Jewell from The MY HERO Project
Kenji Williams creates music and films that celebrate the earth from the perspective of space.

Sally Ride

By: Sara

Gwynne Rowley Shotwell

By: Torrey Levin-Russell
Gwynne Rowley Shotwell is the president of SpaceX, the company that made the Dragon space craft.

John Glenn

By: Kathy Crockett
John Glenn was the first American to orbit the earth.

John Glenn

By: Jeff Trussell

Commander Chris Hadfield

By: Wendy Jewell from The My Hero Project
Commander Chris Hadfield is the first Canadian to become the commander of the International Space Station.

Galileo Galilei

By: Patricia from Spokane
Galileo Galilei was the first to use a telescope to observe the stars and planets.

Nicolaus Copernicus

By: Michelle from Everson
Nicolaus Copernicus was the first astronomer to propose that the planets orbit around the sun.

Albert Einstein

By: Richard V. Duffy
Albert Einstein believed in the power of imagination.

Stephen Hawking

By: Jeremiah from Joplin
"...our image of the universe today is full of strange sounding ideas, and remarkable truths. The story of how we arrived at this picture is the story of learning to understand what we see."

Clifford V. Johnson

By: Jennifer Lauren Lee
Clifford V. Johnson is a string theorist who studies the makeup of the smallest particles of the universe.

Dr. France Cordova

By: Barbara Field
Dr. France Cordova is a renowned astrophysicist who has broken gender and cultural barriers.

Yuri Gagarin

By: Sergei Anokhin and Danila Grigoriev from Kurgan, Russia

Sergey Korolev

By: Evgenia from Korolev

Christa McAuliffe

By: Susannah Abbey
Christa McAuliffe was the first teacher to fly in space.

Ellen Ochoa

By: Daniel Chavez
Ellen Ochoa was the first Hispanic woman astronaut.

Connie Samaras

By: Jonathan Cohen
Connie Samaras has created media archives for deep space voyages.

Judith A. Resnik

By: Alyssa from Ohio
Judith A. Resnik inspired others with her determination to become a scientist and an astronaut.

Kathy Sullivan

By: Raquel Diaz-Sprague<br><h5> Reprinted with permission from <br>the <a href=h...
Kathy Sullivan was the first American woman to walk in space.

Ellison S. Onizuka

By: Jeff Liu
Ellison S. Onizuka has a legacy that continues to live on after the Challenger disaster.

Bonnie Dunbar

By: Kristine from Everson
Bonnie Dunbar helped start a scholars program to inspire students to pursue careers in aerospace and engineering.

Chiaki Mukai

By: Claudia Herrera Hudson
Chiaki Mukai is the first female Japanese astronaut.

Guion S. Bluford, Jr.

By: Jonathan from Michigan

Merieme Chadid

By: Rebecca Miller
Merieme Chadid is an astronomer from Morocco who did research at the South Pole.

Tania Ruiz

By: Star Lawrence<br> <h5>Originally published on the <b>Minority Scientists Net...
Tania Ruiz is an astrophysicist committed to science education and helping women reach their goals.

Maria Mitchell

By: Shannon from USA
"Did you learn that from a book or did you observe it yourself?"

Paul Sipiera

By: Betty Bailey
Paul Sipiera led an expedition into Antarctica to find meteorites for NASA.

Jim Lovell

By: Kevin from Knightdale
Jim Lovell responded quickly and calmly during crises on two Apollo missions.

Yury Usachev

By: Vera from Korolev

Lucy McFadden

By: Lauren Zeranski

Kathy Sullivan

By: Raquel Diaz-Sprague<br><h5> Reprinted with permission from <br>the <a href=h...
Kathy Sullivan was the first American woman to walk in space.

Andrea Ghez

By: Jorge Salazar <br>for Earth & Sky <br> <h5>Permission to use this material<b...
"This object is roughly three million times the mass of our sun inside a very tiny volume. A large mass in a small volume tells you that it has to be a supermassive black hole."

AP Stories

Art

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By: conor

Discovery Lifts Off

By: NASA/Tony Gray and Tom Farrar

Alan Bean with Lunar Soil

By: NASA

The Brightness of the Sun

By: NASA

Chaos and Geomagnetic Reversals

By: Christophe Gissinger <br> Dept. of Astrophysical Sciences / Princeton Plasma...

Space Shuttle - April 1983

By: NASA

My Hero Gagarin

By: Ambrusevich

John Glenn

By: Ronan from Westerville

Albert Einstein

By: Duncan Dempsey from Belo Horizonte

Einstein

By: Tanya

Barred Spiral Galaxy

By: NASA/ESA/Hubble

Bok Globule in Star Forming Region

By: NASA/ESA/Hubble

Carina Nebula

By: NASA/ESA/Hubble

Star Birth and Death in Carina Nebula

By: NASA/ESA/Hubble

Views of Saturn Over the Years (1996-2000)

By: NASA/ESA/Hubble

Uranus

By: NASA/ESA/Hubble

The Two Faces of Mars

By: NASA/ESA/Hubble

Hubble Mosaic of the Majestic Sombrero Galaxy

By: NASA/ESA/Hubble

The Helix Nebula

By: NASA/ESA/Hubble

The Eskimo Nebula (NGC 2392)

By: NASA/ESA/Hubble

The Cone Nebula (NGC 2264)

By: NASA/ESA/Hubble

Stellar Spire in the Eagle Nebula

By: NASA/ESA/Hubble

Starburst Galaxy M82

By: NASA/ESA/Hubble

Star-Forming Gas Pillars in the Eagle Nebula

By: NASA/ESA/Hubble

Star-birthing Region in the Orion Nebula

By: NASA/ESA/Hubble

Saturn: Three Images of a Quadruple Moon Transit

By: NASA/ESA/Hubble

Opposite Hemispheres of Neptune

By: NASA/ESA/Hubble

Mystic Mountain

By: NASA/ESA/Hubble

A New Red Spot on Jupiter

By: NASA/ESA/Hubble

Jupiter's Great Red Spot

By: NASA/ESA/Hubble

Visible-Light Image of Jupiter

By: NASA/ESA/Hubble

Jupiter

By: NASA/ESA/Hubble

Infant Stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud

By: NASA/ESA/Hubble

Hubble's Sharpest View of the Orion Nebula

By: NASA/ESA/Hubble

Hubble Above Earth

By: NASA/ESA/Hubble

Veil Nebula

By: NASA/ESA/Hubble

Light Echo from Star V838 Monocerotis

By: NASA/ESA/Hubble

Carina Nebula Pillar

By: NASA/ESA/Hubble

The Butterfly Nebula

By: NASA/ESA/Hubble

Film

Bella Gaia

Producer: Kenji Williams
Bella Galia means Beautiful Earth. Producer Kenji Williams came up with the idea after meeting an astronaut who lived on a space station for 6 months.

Valentina Mindoljevic

Producer: Emina Kujundzic and Goran Tiro
Valentina Mindoljevic is a physics teacher in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina who challenges and inspires her students.

Cradle to Grave

Producer: Ken Glaser
Travel through time and space in director/songwriter Ken Glaser's music video Cradle To Grave. This computer-animated fantasy is a thought-provoking visual and aural treat.

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