Orbit

References:

• Riding Rockets (Article)
• Bunnell Blast 2006 (Article)
• ROCK's December 2006 Launch (Article)
• NEFAR's August 2007 Launch (Article)
• 2008 Florida Winternationals (Article)
• NEFAR Featured on the Travel Channel (Article)
• Sputnik 1 (Miscellaneous)
• Gemini (Miscellaneous)
• Yuri Gagarin (Miscellaneous)
• International Space Station (Miscellaneous)
• Mercury (Miscellaneous)
• Apollo 10 (Miscellaneous)
• Vostok 1 (Miscellaneous)
• Mir (Miscellaneous)
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Miscellaneous)
• Scott Carpenter (Miscellaneous)
• John Glenn (Miscellaneous)
• Alan Shepard (Miscellaneous)
• Donald Slayton (Miscellaneous)
• NASA (Miscellaneous)
• Apollo 17 (Miscellaneous)
• Apollo 15 (Miscellaneous)
• Endeavour (Miscellaneous)
• Lunar Module (Miscellaneous)
• CM Pilot (Miscellaneous)
• Apollo 14 (Miscellaneous)
• Apollo 1 (Miscellaneous)
• Apollo 8 (Miscellaneous)
• Apollo 9 (Miscellaneous)
• Apollo 12 (Miscellaneous)
• Apollo 16 (Miscellaneous)
• Orbiter (Miscellaneous)
• Wallops Island (Miscellaneous)
• Apogee (Miscellaneous)
• Jupiter (Miscellaneous)
• Army Ballistic Missile Agency (Miscellaneous)
• Mars (Miscellaneous)
• AS-202 (Miscellaneous)
• Apollo-Saturn 202 (Miscellaneous)
• Space Infrared Telescope Facility (Miscellaneous)
• Apollo 5 (Miscellaneous)
• Asteroid Belt (Miscellaneous)
• Mars 2 (Miscellaneous)
• Sally Ride (Miscellaneous)
• Galileo (Miscellaneous)
• Asteroid Ida (Miscellaneous)
• Pegasus 2 (Miscellaneous)
• SA-9 (Miscellaneous)
• Pegasus 1 (Miscellaneous)
• Discovery (Miscellaneous)
• William A. Anders (Miscellaneous)
• SA-4 (Miscellaneous)
• Apollo 7 (Miscellaneous)
• Cassini (Miscellaneous)
• Shenzhou Five (Miscellaneous)
• Yang Liwei (Miscellaneous)
• Zarya Module (Miscellaneous)
• Challenger (Miscellaneous)
• Infrared Space Observatory (Miscellaneous)
• Ariane 44P (Miscellaneous)
• Saturn V (Miscellaneous)
• Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (Miscellaneous)
• Columbia (Miscellaneous)
• Stages (Miscellaneous)
• Telstar (Miscellaneous)
• Communications Satellite (Miscellaneous)
• Transearth Coast (Miscellaneous)
• Alan L. Bean (Miscellaneous)
• Mariner 8 (Miscellaneous)
• Kosmos 419 (Miscellaneous)
• Mariner 9 (Miscellaneous)
• Nozomi (Planet B) (Miscellaneous)
• Mars Climate Orbiter (Miscellaneous)
• 2001 Mars Odyssey (Miscellaneous)
• Wild 2 (Miscellaneous)
• Alan Shepard Jr. (Miscellaneous)
• Ham (Miscellaneous)
• Alan B. Shepard, Jr. (Miscellaneous)
• Leroy G. Cooper (Miscellaneous)
• John H. Glenn (Miscellaneous)
• Walter M. Schirra (Miscellaneous)
• Edgar D. Mitchell (Miscellaneous)
• Manned Orbiting Laboratory (Miscellaneous)
• S-IVB (Miscellaneous)
• Richard Covey (Miscellaneous)
• Bob Crippen (Miscellaneous)
• Sounding Rocket (Miscellaneous)
• Saturn IB (Miscellaneous)
• Enterprise (Miscellaneous)
• Apollo VII (Miscellaneous)
• Delta IV (Miscellaneous)
• Orbital Transport (Miscellaneous)
• Cesaroni Technology Incorporated (Miscellaneous)
• Aerobee (Miscellaneous)
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• Ariane 5 (Miscellaneous)
• Gemini 8 (Miscellaneous)
• STS-41G (Miscellaneous)
• Radar Evaluation Pod (Miscellaneous)
• Dick Scobee (Miscellaneous)
• Gemini 11 (Miscellaneous)
• Lucky Seven (Miscellaneous)
• Fred Haise (Miscellaneous)
• Gary Dahlke (Miscellaneous)
• McDonnell Douglas (Miscellaneous)
• John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth on February 20, 1962.
• Apollo 8 became the first manned spacecraft to orbit the moon on December 21, 1968.
• Skylab I, the first U.S. orbiting laboratory, was launched on May 14, 1973.
• Sputnik 1 Becomes First Artificial Satellite (October 4, 1957) - On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union successfully placed the world's first artificial satellite into orbit around Earth.
• First US Satellite in Orbit (January 31, 1958) - Explorer 1 became America's first satellite on January 31, 1958.
• Yuri Gagarin Orbits Earth (April 12, 1961) - Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit Earth on April 12, 1961.
• First U.S. Manned Suborbital Space Flight (May 5, 1961) - Mercury-Redstone 3 was launched with Alan B. Shepard, Jr. aboard on May 5, 1961.
• Mercury-Redstone 4 Launched (July 21, 1961) - Gus Grissom piloted the second U.S. manned suborbital spaceflight which was launched on July 21, 1961;
• Apollo 15's Endeavour in Lunar Orbit (Picture)
• The launch of Apollo-Saturn 202 (AS-202) on August 25, 1966. (Picture)
• The Space Infrared Telescope Facility is in orbit around the sun. (Picture)
• Steve Pollak's Orbital Transport (Picture)