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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
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Aryabhata began work on 499 C.E. and wrote many astronomy books
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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
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used science to find the earth is round and does circle around the sun
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the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation is making new telescopes to change the world
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he became both the first person in the world to enter space and the first person to orbit the Earth.
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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
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USSR was launched the first sattelite called Sputnik 1
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Laika is a dog that is the first animal to ORBIT the earth
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is constantly taking interesting pictures of space and is sharing info for everyone in the world
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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
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The lunar rover let the astronauts carry there equipment around the moon
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The Gemini space program was when the first astronauts were launched into space
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Apollo was when the first men on the moon first stepped on the moon.
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Skylab was a special space station launched by NASA to provide a detailed study of our planet from the incomparable vantage of orbit.
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Voyager 1 and 2 are special dishes that go out of our solar system so all space programers can konw what is out there.
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There are 6 space shuttles. challenger is the second and was desighned as a flight vehicle first:columbia
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Hubble telescope is named after Edwin Powell Hubble. It is launched into space and gives astronomers a good view of space
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ISS is a space station launched in 1998 and gives bits of information to astronomers
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Tibbinbilla is making telescopes and satellite dishes
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Pluto is not a planet because its orbit crosses Neptune's orbit