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Nicolaus copernicous was a mathematician,astronamer.
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A few comets come close enough to the earth for us to see with our eyes.
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CSIRO operates several world-class radio telescopes that are used by its own astronomers and other astronomers from around Australia and all over the world.
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Arabhata was 23 when he completed the work sometime in about 499,making his year of birth 476 C.E.
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USSR was the first country to launch a sadalite.
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Laika, a mixed-breed dog, was the first living being in orbit. She was launched on the Soviet Union's Sputnik 2 mission in November 1957.
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mercurys goals where to orbit a manned spacecraft around Earth; To investigate man's ability to function in space; To recover both man and spacecraft safely.
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Human exploration
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The crew compartment and many other vehicle fragments were eventually recovered from the ocean floor after a lengthy search and recovery operation.
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The Hubble Space Telescope is a large telescope in space. It was launched by NASA in 1990.
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In August 2006 the International Astronomical Union (IAU) downgraded the status of Pluto to that of "dwarf planet."
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Yuri Gagarin was born in Klushino, a small village west of Moscow in Russia (then known as the Soviet Union).
