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Aryabhata was famous for writing books about astronamy and space. He found out that planets move in circle paths and moons and planets shine by reflected sunlight.
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Corpernicus was a astronamer that found out where the sun was and where the earth was.
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Galileo was the first person to use science to find out what our universe is made of.
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Halley's comet was predicted to come by Edmond Halley Halley's Comet was also named after Edmond Halley
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Yuri Gagarin was a cosmonaut and pilot. He was the first to journey into outer space
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The first animals in space were fruitflies.
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Laika was a dog that went on a rocket and orbited the earth
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USSR was the first to launch a unmanned sattelite into space that orbited earth. The name of the sattelite was Sputnik 1 and the rocket was named Sputnick-PS
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NASA stands for National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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The Apollo program was the third human spaceflight. Apollo was ran by NASA
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The Apollo program was designed to land humans on the Moon and bring them safely back to Earth. Six of the missions (Apollos 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17) achieved this goal. The first Apollo program rocket was launched at 17 Jan 1967, the last Apollo Mission was laucnhed at 7th Dec 1972. The first Apollo Mission that succeded at their goal was Apollo Mission 11
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Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve is a short drive from the city of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. It is located on the fringe of Namadgi National Park. It was built in 1971.
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Skylab was a space station launched and operated by NASA and was the United States' first space station. It was launched on 24th of March 1973.The station was damaged during launch when the micrometeoroid shield separated from the workshop and tore away, taking one of two main solar panel arrays with it and jamming the other one so that it could not deploy.
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The first successful landing on mars happened at 20th Jul 1976
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The Voyager program is an American scientific program that launched two unmanned space missions
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The Hubble Space Telescope is a large telescope in space. It was launched by NASA in 1990. It was named after Edward Powell Hubble.
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The Iss (International space station) is a resarch facility in space. Scientests do space experements etc.
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CSIRO is Australia's national science agency
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Scientists believe that comets are made up of material left over from when the Sun and the planets were formed. They think that about 100,000 million comets orbit the Sun. Some comets orbit the Sun like planets. Their orbits take them very close to and very far away from the Sun.
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The Lunar Roving Vehicle was a vehicle that could drive on the moon. It allowed the astronauts to move quickly on the moon.
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Pluto is no longer a object because it is leaving the suns orbit and the orbit is diaggonal.It became a dwarf planet in 2006
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The Space Shuttle was diffrent from the spacecraft because the space shuttle was used for and fixing sattelites while the spacecraft was used for communications, earth observation, cargo and human transport.There were 135 shuttles.The first mission was on 1981 and the final mission was on 2011.The space shuttle challenger was a race between 2 space shuttles.
