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Aryabhatta lived as a great astronomer/mathematician.
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At the age of 22 he discovered a theory called the heliocentric or sun-center theory of the universe. The Sun is in the center and other planets orbit around it.Copernicus did not believe that the Earth was in the middle.
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After working for 24hours Galileo Galilei invented the first telescope and used it.he found Saturn.
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Halleys comet visble from earth for every 75-76 years.It was named after Edmond Halley.
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CSIRO stands for Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation.This research group provides provider of technology and services for radio astronomy, spacecraft tracking and space sciences.
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The first animals in space was the fruit flies. The fruit flies were aboard the V-2 Rocket on February 20, 1947.The purpose was to explore the radiation of high altitudes.
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Laika was the first dogs to orbit the earth sucessfully to orbit the Earth.
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Exlporer I was the first rocket to be launched by the USA on 1st Febuary 1958.
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NASA stands for National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA is in charge of U.S. science and technology that has to do with astronomy and space.
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Project Mercury started from 1959 and ended in 1963 with the goal of putting a human in orbit around the Earth.
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Gemini was an early NASA space program. Ten crews flew during Gemini. Their missions were flown in 1965 and 1966. Gemini missions flew between the Mercury and Apollo programs.
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The main purpose of the appollo missions was to put a man on the moon and make them retur safely but they also wnated to adjust technology and the man's ability to work on lunar enviroment.
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Skylab was the first space station to be launched in 1973.It orbited the Earth from 1973 to 1979. Skylab's purpose was to serve as a laborarory for scientific experiments in space until February 1974.
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The hubble sace telesope is a large telescope sent into space on April 24, 1990.Hubble faces toward space. It takes pictures of planets, stars and galaxies.
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In Aug 24, 2006 Pluto was considered no longer a planet because It's smaller than any other planet - even smaller than the Earth's moon.It's dense and rocky, like the terrestrial planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars). However, its nearest neighbors are the gaseous Jovian planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune). For this reason, many scientists believe that Pluto originated elsewhere in space and got caught in the Sun's gravity. Some astronomers once theorized that Pluto used to be one o
