7 Explorers: Space Exploration

Discuss the personal achievements of the explorer during their exploration. Choose from the categories of trade, discovery, cultural exchange, innovation and language.  

Describe your explorer’s personality. Describe their personal attributes that made them an explorer. You could discuss the explorer’s need/desire to explore - Why did they choose/want to explore?

Discuss the explorer’s perspective - how did they view the world around them?

To what extent did space exploration during the race to the moon have a technological impact?

Consider

• short term consequences?
• long term consequences?

Elon Musk (USA)

Yuri Gagarin (Soviet Union)

Neil Armstrong (USA)

Valentine Tereshkova (Soviet Union)

Sally Ride (USA)

Buzz Aldrin (USA)

John Glenn (USA)

Map

Articles

• NASA: Socio-Economic Impacts
• Impact of Space (printable - a long article you may wish to print and scan)

Websites

• The Start of the Space Race, via Khan Academy
• The Cold War, an excellent overview via BBC Bites
• Space Travel's Surprising Effect on Humanity, via Mashable
• NASA: Why We Explore

Log into our School Resources (below) for these articles

Britannica

• Space Exploration

Gale in Context

• Space Race
• NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)

World Book

• Space Exploration (scroll for headings!)