When did Hale-Bopp the comet come by the Earth? Was Sputnik the first satellite in space? When was the last time a Saturn rocket launched? When did Alan Shepard join NASA? When was Saturn discovered? When did the Chelyabinsk meteor hit? How old was Valentina Tereshkova when she went into...
It was not much bigger than a soccer ball and weighed less than 185 pounds. But 50 years ago, when the Russian satellite Sputnik successfully orbited the Earth, it made headlines around the world and marked the beginning of the race for space. The launch
TheSovietUnionbecamethe【6】oftheracewhenitlaunchedthefirstsatelliteandsentthefirstastronautintospace. 1969 TheUnitedStates【7】inputtingapersononthemoon. Inoneway,it【8】theSovietUnionbybecomingthefirstcountrytoflypeopletothemoon. 1970s TheSovietsbuiltthefirstspacestationandwassoonfollowedbyAmericans.Andthey...
She was a veterinary nurse whose last voice message to her friends said, “They’ve arrived, they have me.” In a released video, footage of her was seen where she appeared alive. That was in January of 2024. Romi Gonen was at the Nova Music Festival. She had been shot in the han...
If the tiniest piece of junk crashed into a spaceship, it could damage the vehicle. To make things worse, when two objects in space crash, they break into many smaller pieces. For example, when a U.S. satellite hit an old Russian rocket in 2009, it broke into more t...
When was the Burj Khalifa made? Burj Khalifa: The Burj Khalifa ("Khalifa Tower") is the tallest building on the planet. It is located in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. It is located near other commercial and residential buildings. ...
For centuries people dreamed of going into space.This dream began to seem possible when highflying rockets were built in the early 1900s. In 1903 a Russian teacher named Konstantin Tsiolkovsky figured out how to use rockets for space travel.His plan was the first one in rocket science to...
1. Lottie Williams's story is “"a. She once saw a satellite re-enteringthe atmosphereb. She was once hit by a piece of space junkc. She is a scientist who knows a lot about space junkAn artist'sd. She once saw a Delta II rocket being launchedimpression of all2...
The James Webb Space Telescope (the naming of whichremains controversial) is an infrared space observatory that is the product of a collaborative effort between NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) spanning over three decades. The telescope was launched into...
first testing the R-7Semyorkamissile in May 1957. On October 4 of that year, a modified version of the R-7 carried the world’s first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, into orbit, kicking off the Space Race – and for more on this heady – and often disastrous – early period of space...