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Aryabhata wrote a book on astronamy and mathmatics.
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In the early 1500s everyone thought that the earth was the centre of the universe but Copernicus thought otherwise.
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Galileo discovered that the earth orbits the sun and that it wasnt the other way around with just a 5 centremetre lens telescope
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commets are basicly dusty snowballs that orbit the sun.A halleys comet is a comet visible from earth in 75 - 76 years.Halleys comet is named after Edmond G. Halley who was the first to discover that comets where natural phenomena of the solar system.
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CSIRO stands for comenwealth scientific and industrial research organization
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after the Russian people launched Sputnik 1 in space there next goal was to send a person in space and that person was yuri gagarin.
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The first animal in space was a monkey named Albert 1
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Laika was a space dog one of the first animals in space. Laika became so famous because his death in space.
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NASA stands for national arenautics and space adminastration. NASA does lots of different things one of them is that they make satlelite dishes.
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the viking 1 was the first spacecraft to orbit and land on mars.
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skylab wanted to prove that humans could live and work in space for extended periods.
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this space shuttle was one of nasas greatest triumphs but it then was disasteres as it exploded.
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The international spacecraft is a spacecraft that orbits around the earth and its also a place where astronauts live.
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pluto was downgraded to a dwarf planet because it did not meet the IAU uses to define a full sized planet
