This mural called "Star Seekers"hangs in the lobby of the Astronauts Memorial Foundation at the
Kennedy Space Center. It honors some of the scientists and explorers whose discoveries and
explorations contributed to space flight as we know it today.
Look at the list below. Using the Web sites provided, identify each person list and, in one or two
sentences tell why he has been included in the Star Seekers mural. You will present your information
in a powerpoint presentation creating a title slide and one slide for each person identified.
Group A:
Wilbur Wright
Icarus
Archimedes
Isaac Newton
Galileo
Copernicus
Leonardo Da Vinci
Konstantine Tsiolkovsky
Group B
Daedalus
Albert Einstein
Robert Goddard
Yuri Gagarin
Sergei Korolev
Neil Armstrong
Wernher Von Braun
Hermann Oberth
Links to help your search
http://my.execpc.com/~culp/space/history.html
http://www.phy.hr/~dpaar/fizicari/
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/space.shtml
