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Halleys comets
A comet is a rock made of ice or dust which is from space.Halleys comet is a comet which appears every 76 years.It is named after Edmond Halley -
Period: 476 to 550
Aryabhata
Aryabhata began work on 499 C.E. and wrote many astronomy books -
Period: Jan 1, 1510 to
Copernicus
Copernicus only guessed that the earth was not in the center of the universe. he wrote a book about it but went to jail because many people did not like it -
Period: to
Galileo
used science to find the earth is round and does circle around the sun -
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CSIRO
the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation is making new telescopes to change the world -
Period: to
Yuri Gagarin
he became both the first person in the world to enter space and the first person to orbit the Earth. -
First animal in space
The first animals ever intentionally sent into space were fruit flies launched aboard a V2 rocket but only one made it to be alive when first reaching orbit. The reason for this was bacteria and diseases -
First satellite in space
USSR was launched the first sattelite called Sputnik 1 -
Laika the dog
Laika is a dog that is the first animal to ORBIT the earth -
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NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is constantly taking interesting pictures of space and is sharing info for everyone in the world -
Apollo 1 and succeeding one
a cabin fire during a launch rehearsal test on January 27 which killed all 3 crew members. Apollo 11 was first which succeeded at last in 1969 -
Lunar rover
The lunar rover let the astronauts carry there equipment around the moon -
Gemini
The Gemini space program was when the first astronauts were launched into space -
Apollo
Apollo was when the first men on the moon first stepped on the moon. -
Skylab
Skylab was a special space station launched by NASA to provide a detailed study of our planet from the incomparable vantage of orbit. -
Voyager
Voyager 1 and 2 are special dishes that go out of our solar system so all space programers can konw what is out there. -
challenger
There are 6 space shuttles. challenger is the second and was desighned as a flight vehicle first:columbia
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Hubble
Hubble telescope is named after Edwin Powell Hubble. It is launched into space and gives astronomers a good view of space -
ISS
ISS is a space station launched in 1998 and gives bits of information to astronomers -
Tibbinbilla
Tibbinbilla is making telescopes and satellite dishes -
dwarf planet:Pluto
Pluto is not a planet because its orbit crosses Neptune's orbit