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DID YOU KNOW?

* It takes eight minutes and 20 seconds for the light leaving the sun to reach Earth. (Note: Never look directly at the sun!) The light from our next closest stellar neighbor, Proxima Centauri, takes more than four years to reach Earth!

* The sun actually creates weather in space-a stream of charged particles called "solar wind." Sometimes these particles erupt from sunspots (cooler regions of the sun's surface) as "solar flares" that can knock out power on Earth.

* Our sun rules the solar system on its own, but many stars share their systems with a second or third star. Imagine having two or three birthdays!

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The sun is an ordinary star, one of about 100 billion in our galaxy, the Milky Way. The sun has extremely important influences on our planet: It drives weather, ocean currents, seasons, and climate, and makes plant life possible through photosynthesis.

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What is a constellation? If you tried to draw lines between the stars like a dot-to-dot puzzle they might form objects, animals or people. Some of these star patterns are called constellations. They help astronomers divide the night sky into sections, so we know what’s what in the vastness of space. Things you see in … Continue reading Learn about cool constellations with The LEGO® Group!

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There are a few different definitions of constellations, but many people think of constellations as a group of stars. Often, it's a group of stars that looks like a particular shape in the sky and has been given a name. These stars are far away from Earth. They are not connected to each other at all. Some stars in a constellation might be close while others are very far away. But, if you were to draw lines in the sky between the stars like a dot-to-dot puzzle - and use lots of imagination - the picture would look like an object, animal, or person.

Over time, cultures around the world have had different names and numbers of constellations depending on what people thought they saw. Today, there are 88 officially recognized constellations.

What constellations can you see in the night sky?

The constellations you can see at night depend on the time of year. Earth orbits around the Sun once each year. Our view into space through the night sky changes as we orbit. So, the night sky looks slightly different each night because Earth is in a different spot in its orbit. The stars appear each night to move slightly west of where they were the night before.

Your location on Earth also determines what stars and constellations you see, and how high they appear to rise in the sky. The Northern Hemisphere is always pointing in a different direction than the Southern Hemisphere. This means that stargazers in Australia, for example, get a slightly different view of the sky and can see a few different constellations than those in the United States.

It can be a little confusing to picture how the night sky changes as we orbit the Sun. You can see how it all works in the illustration below.

For example, say you're in the Northern Hemisphere looking into the night sky on September 21. You'll probably be able to see the constellation Pisces. But you won't see Virgo because that constellation is on the other side of the Sun. During that time of year, Virgo's stars would only be visible during the daytime - but you'd never see them because of the brightness of our Sun.

Want more? Our star finder activity is a great way to have some fun and learn about the constellations visible in our night sky each month.

What's the difference between astrology and astronomy?

Astronomy is the scientific study of everything in outer space. Astronomers and other scientists study stars and galaxies, most of which are many light-years away from Earth. Studying the scientific properties of these objects in space helps us to understand how the universe was made, what else is out there, and how we fit in.

Astrology is not the same thing as astronomy. As a science, astronomy follows the scientific process involving evidence and data. Astrology is based on the belief that the location of certain stars and planets in the sky can predict the future or describe what a person is like. While astrology is important to some cultural traditions, its claims are not based on scientific evidence.

How does NASA use the constellations?

Stars and constellations stay in approximately the same spot for many, many years. They only appear to move in the sky during the year because we are on a moving planet. Because the constellations are in a fixed location, they are often used as landmarks in the sky. Many stars, nebulae, and other objects are named after the constellations they are found in.

For example, meteor showers are named for the constellation where the meteors appear to be coming from. So, for example, the Orionids meteor shower, which occurs in October each year, appear to come from the same direction as the constellation Orion the Hunter.

Known stars, such as those in well-known constellations, can also be used to navigate. For centuries, sailors used stars to determine their location when out at sea. This is called celestial navigation. NASA astronauts have also trained to use celestial navigation as a backup in case modern navigation systems have trouble.

Robotic spacecraft also use maps of the stars to find their way. They carry a star map in their onboard computers and compare these star maps to patterns of stars in images they take. So, in a way, patterns of stars are as helpful today as they were to ancient navigators.

Additional resources:

What's Up: A Monthly Skywatching Summary
What Are Asterisms?

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10 facts about the Moon

7) As the Moon travels, it rotates on its own axis, just like our planet. It takes roughly the same amount of time for the Moon to make a full rotation as it does for it to complete its orbit. This means we only ever see around 60% of the Moon's surface from Earth! The part that faces Earth is known as the 'near side' and the other, the 'far side'.

8) The temperature on the Moon varies from super hot to super cold! When the Sun hits its surface, temperatures can reach a scorching 127°C. But when the Sun 'goes down', temperatures can plummet to around -153°C. Brr...

9) Like Earth, the Moon has gravity (the force that pulls things towards the ground). But the Moon's gravity is weaker, only one sixth of the Earth's gravity, in fact. That means you'd weigh much less if you were to stand on the Moon!

10) Scientists aren't entirely sure how the Moon formed. A popular theory is that a Mars-sized rock, named Theia, crashed into Earth around 4.5 billion years ago. The debris from the collision clumped together to make what is now... Our Moon!

What do you think of our facts about the Moon? Out of this world, right?! Leave a comment below and let us know...

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From lighting up our skies to maintaining a geological record of our solar system's history, Earth's closest celestial neighbor plays a pivotal role in the studies of our planet and our solar system.

Earth's Moon is the brightest and largest object in our night sky. The Moon makes Earth a more livable planet by moderating our home planet's wobble on its axis, leading to a relatively stable climate. It also causes tides, creating a rhythm that has guided humans for thousands of years.

The Moon was likely formed after a Mars-sized body collided with Earth several billion years ago.

Earth's only natural satellite is simply called "the Moon" because people didn't know other moons existed until Galileo Galilei discovered four moons orbiting Jupiter in 1610. In Latin, the Moon was called Luna, which is the main adjective for all things Moon-related: lunar.

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INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

About the International Space Station

The station was designed between 1984 and 1993. Elements of the station were in construction throughout the US, Canada, Japan, and Europe beginning in the late 1980s.

The International Space Station Program brings together international flight crews, multiple launch vehicles, globally distributed launch and flight operations, training, engineering, and development facilities, communications networks, and the international scientific research community.

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Expedition 71

Expedition 71 began on April 5, 2024 and ends in September 2024. This crew will explore neuro-degenerative diseases and therapies, space botany, space-caused fluid shifts, and algae-based life support systems.

International Cooperation

The International Space Station Program's greatest accomplishment is as much a human achievement as it is a technological one-how best to plan, coordinate, and monitor the varied activities of many organizations and operations.

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the space station. The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada.

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The International Space Station is the biggest object ever flown in space. It travels around the Earth at an average speed of 27,700 km/h, completing 16 orbits per day. At night it can easily be seen from Earth, as it flies 320 kilometres above us. 16 countries, including the USA, Russia, Japan, Canada and many ESA member states worked together to build the Station.

The largest part of the ISS is a central truss to which 16 huge solar panels are attached. The modules where the astronauts live and work are attached to the centre of the truss. Europe's biggest ISS project is the Columbus science laboratory, where astronauts can carry out scientific experiments in weightless conditions. Many different types of experiments can take place both inside and outside this space laboratory.

ESA also makes the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), a series of uncrewed spacecraft designed to take supplies to the ISS. The cargo craft delivers food, fuel, equipment and other supplies.

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Introduction
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The International Space Station (ISS) is a spacecraft in Earth orbit that is used as a base for scientific research. The station is a collection of separate modules, or units, that were launched into space and then linked together. The ISS is continuously occupied by astronauts as it orbits Earth. The United States and Russia worked together to build and maintain the space station, with the assistance of several other countries. In 2022 Russia announced that it would end its participation in the project after 2024.

Beginnings
The project began as a U.S. effort under President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. He authorized the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to build a space station within 10 years. However, funding and technical problems delayed the project. In the 1990s officials redesigned the station to reduce costs. In 1993 the United States and Russia agreed to merge their separate space station plans into a single facility. The European Space Agency (ESA) and Japan contributed to the task.

Construction
The assembly of the ISS began in 1998 when U.S. space shuttle astronauts linked a Russian control module and a U.S.-built connecting node while in orbit. In mid-2000 a Russian-built habitat and control center was added to the station. Later that year the ISS received its first resident crew-two Russians and an American. Astronauts subsequently joined a NASA laboratory and other elements to the station. The overall plan called for other laboratories and habitats to be attached over several years. Besides the United States and Russia, Canada, Japan, Brazil, and 11 ESA members helped with the station construction.

Operations
The early research work of ISS astronauts focused on investigations in the weightless environment. After the breakup of the space shuttle Columbia in 2003, the shuttle fleet was grounded. That halted expansion of the station. Meanwhile, the crew was reduced from three to two, and they focused on station upkeep rather than on research. Crews flew to and from the ISS in Russian Soyuz spacecraft.

After the shuttle resumed regular flights in 2006, the ISS crew size was increased to three. Three more laboratories were installed within the next few years. With all its modules and solar panels, the ISS is as large as a football field and weighs about 1 million pounds (454,000 kilograms). Since 2009 it usually has hosted a six-person crew but has held up to 13 astronauts at one time. Each astronaut usually stays at the station for about six months. Ground-control workers monitor and control the space station. The ISS keeps two Soyuz shuttles docked at the station at all times in case the astronauts need to evacuate.

After completion of the ISS, American officials retired the space shuttle from service in 2011. Thereafter, space vehicles from Russia, Japan, and the ESA serviced the station. Astronauts used Soyuz spacecraft to reach the ISS. Two private American companies, SpaceX and Boeing, developed spacecraft for carrying cargo and astronauts to the space station as well. SpaceX's Dragon was the first private spacecraft to carry astronauts to the station.

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Fun ISS Facts for Kids

Check out these fun International Space Station (ISS) facts for kids. Enjoy a range of interesting facts about the International Space Station, how many astronauts have been to the station, how big the ISS is, how long the ISS has been in orbit around Earth for, what is the station used for and much more.

The first part of the ISS sent to space was the module called Zarya. It was launched into space on a Russian Proton rocket on November 20th, 1998. Zarya provided propulsion, attitude control, communications and electrical power.

Two weeks later, NASA launched a module called Unity aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour, successfully attaching it to the Zarya module. The Unity module was equipped with all the requirements for long-term human living.

The ISS was built to be a space environment research laboratory and observatory, where crew members could conduct experiments in many scientific fields including: biology, human biology, physics, astronomy, and meteorology.

The first ISS crew mission called 'Expedition 1' launched on a Russian Soyuz, October 31, 2000. The 3 Russian cosmonauts docked and entered the ISS on November 2nd, 2000. The space station has been continuously occupied since, making it the longest continuous human presence in space.

The ISS has been visited by astronauts and cosmonauts from 15 different nations. There has been a total of 352 flights to the ISS, by 211 individual people, 31 of these were women, and 7 were 'space tourists' (as of 2013).

As of 2013, there has been 174 spacewalks outside the modules in support of the ISS's construction and maintenance, that's almost 1,100 hours (nearly 46 days).

There's been 38 expeditions to the ISS as of 2013. An expedition can last up to six months. Early expeditions had 3 person crews, this was reduced to 2 person crews for safety, however today crew numbers regularly reach 6 people.

The ISS programme is a joint project that involves 5 space agencies. NASA, of USA, Roskosmos of Russia, JAXA of Japan, CSA of Canada and ESA made up of agencies from France, Brazil, Malaysia, South Korea and Italy.

With the naked eye, the ISS can be seen from nearly every area of Earth at some point in time, it appears as a slow moving bright white dot in the night sky.

For more information about how astronauts do everyday tasks in zero gravity on the ISS, see our amazing Astronauts Videos page!

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Fun ISS Facts for Kids

Check out these fun International Space Station (ISS) facts for kids. Enjoy a range of interesting facts about the International Space Station, how many astronauts have been to the station, how big the ISS is, how long the ISS has been in orbit around Earth for, what is the station used for and much more.

The first part of the ISS sent to space was the module called Zarya. It was launched into space on a Russian Proton rocket on November 20th, 1998. Zarya provided propulsion, attitude control, communications and electrical power.

Two weeks later, NASA launched a module called Unity aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour, successfully attaching it to the Zarya module. The Unity module was equipped with all the requirements for long-term human living.

The ISS was built to be a space environment research laboratory and observatory, where crew members could conduct experiments in many scientific fields including: biology, human biology, physics, astronomy, and meteorology.

The first ISS crew mission called 'Expedition 1' launched on a Russian Soyuz, October 31, 2000. The 3 Russian cosmonauts docked and entered the ISS on November 2nd, 2000. The space station has been continuously occupied since, making it the longest continuous human presence in space.

The ISS has been visited by astronauts and cosmonauts from 15 different nations. There has been a total of 352 flights to the ISS, by 211 individual people, 31 of these were women, and 7 were 'space tourists' (as of 2013).

As of 2013, there has been 174 spacewalks outside the modules in support of the ISS's construction and maintenance, that's almost 1,100 hours (nearly 46 days).

There's been 38 expeditions to the ISS as of 2013. An expedition can last up to six months. Early expeditions had 3 person crews, this was reduced to 2 person crews for safety, however today crew numbers regularly reach 6 people.

The ISS programme is a joint project that involves 5 space agencies. NASA, of USA, Roskosmos of Russia, JAXA of Japan, CSA of Canada and ESA made up of agencies from France, Brazil, Malaysia, South Korea and Italy.

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- [Narrator] Black holes are among the most fascinating objects in our universe, and also the most mysterious. A black hole is a region in space where the force of gravity is so strong, not even light, the fastest known entity in our universe, can escape. The boundary of a black hole is called the event horizon, a point of no return beyond which we truly cannot see. When something crosses the event horizon, it collapses into the black hole's singularity, an infinitely small, infinitely dense point where space, time, and the laws of physics no longer apply. Scientists have theorized several different types of black holes, with stellar and supermassive black holes being the most common. Stellar black holes form when massive stars die and collapse. They're roughly 10 to 20 times the mass of our sun, and scattered throughout the universe. There could be millions of these stellar black holes in the Milky Way alone. Supermassive black holes are giants by comparison, measuring millions, even billions of times more massive than our sun. Scientists can only guess how they form, but we do know they exist at the center of just about every large galaxy, including our own. Sagittarius A, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way has a mass of roughly four million suns and has a diameter about the distance between the Earth and our sun. Because black holes are invisible, the only way for scientists to detect and study them is to observe their effect on nearby matter. This includes accretion discs, a disc of particles that form when gases and dust fall toward a black hole. And quasars, jets of particles that blast out of supermassive black holes. Black holes remained largely unknown until the 20th century. In 1916, using Einstein's general theory of relativity, a German physicist named Karl Schwarzschild calculated that any mass could become a black hole if it were compressed tightly enough. But it wasn't until 1971 when theory became reality. Astronomers studying the constellation Cygnus discovered the first black hole. An untold number of black holes are scattered throughout the universe, constantly warping space and time, altering entire galaxies, and endlessly inspiring both scientists and our collective imagination.
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- [Narradora] Los agujeros negros están entre los objetos más fascinantes de nuestro universo y también los más misteriosos. Un agujero negro es una región en el espacio y su fuerza de la gravedad es tan fuerte, que ni la luz, la entidad más rápida conocida en el universo, escapa. El límite de un agujero negro se llama horizonte de eventos, un punto de no retorno más allá del cual realmente no vemos. Cuando algo cruza el horizonte de eventos, se colapsa en la singularidad del agujero negro, un punto infinitamente pequeño, infinitamente denso donde el espacio, tiempo y leyes de la física no aplican. Los científicos teorizaron varios tipos diferentes de agujeros negros, los estelares y supermasivos son los más comunes. Los agujeros negros estelares se forman cuando las estrellas masivas mueren y colapsan. Son aproximadamente de 10 a 20 veces la masa del sol, y están dispersos por todo el universo. Podría haber millones de estos agujeros negros estelares solo en la Vía Láctea. Los agujeros supermasivos son gigantes en comparación, sus medidas son millones, incluso miles de millones de veces más masivas que nuestro sol. Los científicos solo pueden adivinar cómo se forman, pero sabemos que existen en el centro de casi todas las galaxias grandes, incluyendo la nuestra. Sagitario A, el agujero negro supermasivo en el centro de la Vía Láctea tiene una masa de aproximadamente cuatro millones de soles y tiene un diámetro aproximadamente la distancia entre la Tierra y nuestro sol. Debido a que los agujeros negros son invisibles, la forma en que los científicos los detectan y estudian es observando su efecto en la materia cercana. Esto incluye discos de acreción, son de partículas formadas cuando los gases y el polvo caen hacia un agujero negro. Y los cuásares, que son chorros de partículas. que se disparan desde agujeros negros supermasivos. Los agujeros negros eran desconocidos hasta el siglo XX. En 1916, usando la teoría de la relatividad de Einstein, un físico alemán llamado Karl Schwarzschild calculó que cualquier masa se convierte en un agujero negro si se comprimiera lo suficientemente. Pero fue hasta 1971 cuando la teoría se volvió realidad. Astrónomos que estudiaban la constelación de Cygnus descubrieron el primer agujero negro. Un número incalculable de agujeros negros están esparcidos por todo el universo, deformando el espacio y tiempo, alterando galaxias enteras, e inspirando sin cesar tanto a científicos como a nuestra imaginación colectiva.

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Space is a pretty dark place. Even so, some areas are darker than others. Nothing is darker than a black hole.

A black hole is an area of such immense gravity that nothing-not even light-can escape from it.

Black holes form at the end of some stars' lives. The energy that held the star together disappears and it collapses in on itself producing a magnificent explosion.

Here's where things get crazy. All of that material left over from the explosion, many times the mass of our Sun, falls into an infinitely small point.

Black holes can form in many ways though, and large black holes can have tens to millions of times the mass of our sun trapped in a point smaller than the tip of a pin! Some black holes trap more and more material as their mass increases.

The point where all that mass is trapped is called a singularity. It may be infinitely small, but its influence is enormous.

Imagine a circle with a singularity in the middle. The gravity on the inside of the circle is so strong that nothing can escape-it sucks in everything, even light. That's why it's black!

This circle is known as the event horizon. An event horizon is probably what you are thinking of when you think of a black hole.

What would happen, you might wonder, if we took a spacecraft near a black hole's event horizon? The answer-spaghettification! That's the technical term, at least.

As our spacecraft approaches it, the gravity will be so much stronger on the side closer to the black hole than at the other side that it will get completely stretched out like a piece of spaghetti.

Try as you may, you would be hard-pressed to find anything weirder or cooler than a black hole...

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At the center of most galaxies is one of the strangest and deadliest things in the universe: a black hole.

Most black holes, regardless of their size, are born when a giant star runs out of energy. The star implodes, and its center collapses under its own weight. This causes an explosion called a supernova. The giant star is eventually squashed into a supersmall dot you can't see.

A black hole's gravity, or attractive force, is so strong that it pulls in anything that gets too close. It can even swallow entire stars. Nothing can move fast enough to escape a black hole's gravity. This includes light, the fastest thing in the universe. That's why we can't see black holes in space-they've gobbled up all the light. Though astronomers can't see black holes, they know they're there by the effect they have on objects that get too close.

Two types of black holes exist. Supermassive black holes are the largest type of black hole. They're up to one million times more massive than our sun. This is the kind of black hole that's at the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way; it's called Sagittarius A*. (A* is scientist-code for "A-star.") The most common type of black holes, stellar black holes, are only up to 20 times more massive than our sun.

The intense gravity near a black hole makes time behave in strange ways. If an astronaut left his spacecraft to explore a black hole up close, he'd see the hands on his watch ticking at normal speed. But if anyone back on the spacecraft could observe the astronaut's watch from far away, they'd see its hands slow down as the spacewalker got closer to the black hole. When the spacewalker returned to the spaceship after an hour-long spacewalk, years would have passed for those aboard the spacecraft.

Someday humans might be able to use black holes to time travel forward. An astronaut could take a short trip near a black hole and return to Earth after years, decades, or even centuries had passed there. A black hole time machine could allow an astronaut to find out what the world will be like in the future. But going back in time? That's a different challenge altogether!

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On July 20, 1969, millions of people gathered around their televisions to watch two U.S. astronauts do something no one had ever done before. Wearing bulky space suits and backpacks of oxygen to breathe, Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became the first human beings to walk on the moon.

After the two stepped onto the lunar surface, Armstrong proclaimed these famous words: "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."

SPACE RACE

Humans were only able to make that small step after several other space firsts happened. In 1957 the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, was launched into space by Russia. The United States launched several satellites of their own afterward. Both countries hoped to be the first to send a human into space.

It wasn't until 1961 that a person went to space: On April 12, Russia's Yuri Gagarin became the first. Less than a month later the United States' Alan Shepard became the first American in space. Following these milestones, President John F. Kennedy issued a challenge to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to put a human on the moon in 10 years or less.

NASA went to work. On July 16, 1969, the spacecraft Apollo 11 prepared to launch a crew of three astronauts into space ... and the history books.

MOON WALK

NASA officials selected Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins as the astronauts who would make the historic trip from Earth on Apollo 11. Just four days after launching from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the spacecraft neared the moon's surface.

Before touching down, the three men split up. Collins boarded Apollo 11's command module, the Columbia, where he would remain in orbit around the moon. Armstrong and Aldrin boarded Apollo 11's lunar module, the Eagle, and began to descend to the moon's surface.

The Eagle made a risky landing in a shallow moon crater named the Sea of Tranquility. (Most people watching the landing on TV didn't know that the Eagle had only 20 seconds of landing fuel left at this point.) Armstrong and Aldrin looked out the windows of the module at the lifeless and barren lunar landscape.

After six and a half hours pass, the pair inside the Eagle prepared to exit the module. As mission commander, Armstrong stepped out first ... and became the first person on the moon.

Twenty minutes later, Aldrin climbed down the ladder and joined his partner. After reading a plaque that said they "came in peace for all mankind," the two planted the United States' flag on the surface. President Richard Nixon called to congratulate the astronauts.

Armstrong and Aldrin went back to work collecting samples of moon rocks and dust. After over two hours, the astronauts brought 47 pounds back onto the lunar module and prepared to rejoin Collins. It was time to go home.

DOWN TO EARTH

The Apollo 11 crew returned to Earth on July 24, 1969. Over the next several years, 10 astronauts would follow in Armstrong and Aldrin's footsteps. The last mission to the moon was in 1972.

Though humans haven't returned to the moon since, they have continued to explore space. They even built the International Space Station (ISS), a space research station, where they can conduct experiments and study space up close.

Today NASA is working on sending humans to another planet: Mars. Thanks to the Apollo 11 moon landing, NASA is hopeful about its chances. The act of putting three people on the moon-and then safely bringing them back home-proved that successful human exploration in space is possible.

Text adapted from Ladders Earth Science: Exploring Above and Beyond by Stephanie Harvey and Space Encyclopedia: A Tour of Our Solar System and Beyond byDavid A. Aguilar and Patricia Daniels

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The Apollo 11 mission took place 8 years after President John F Kennedy announced that the goal was to land a man on the Moon by the end of the 1960s.

Apollo 11 was launched on July 16, 1969. Apollo 11 was to perform the first human landing of the Moon.

On July 20, 1969, Americans landed on the Moon. They were Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin.

When they landed there, Armstrong said: "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

The Apollo 11 Program

Apollo was a program that sent people to the Moon. There were 11 Apollo flights. The first flight was in 1968.

John Kennedy wanted to land astronauts on the Moon with the Apollo program. This was the first time people had left Earth's orbit and visited another world. These trips allowed NASA to explore other planets in the future.

The spacecraft was put through its paces during the first four flights. The lunar landing of six of the other seven missions was tested.

The first landing was in 1969, and then six more took place in 1972.

Twelve astronauts went to the Moon. They looked at it. They collected rocks from the Moon and brought them back to Earth.

Apollo 11: Mission Objectives

The goal of Apollo 11 was for a crew to set foot on the Moon and come back to Earth.

The astronauts on the Apollo 11 mission also wanted to explore. They wanted to send a space module up.

The Apollo 11 mission also included deploying a television camera to send signals back to Earth. The mission has a solar wind experiment, a seismic experiment, and a laser retroreflector.

Who is Buzz Aldrin?

Buzz Aldrin is a veteran astronaut. He became the second human to set foot on the surface of the Moon.

The name "Buzz" came from Fay Ann's mispronunciation of the word "brother." That became "Buzzer." Then people started to call him that, and it became "Buzz."

By chance, his mom's name was Marion Moon.

The Apollo 11 spaceflight was led by Neil Armstrong. With Buzz on board, they went to the Moon in July 1969. They collected rock samples and took pictures. They set the first American flag on the Moon.

Aldrin was a fighter pilot and an engineer who became a celebrity. He continued to promote space exploration even after he left NASA. In 2016, he also explored Antarctica. That was an experience that nearly killed him.

Who was Neil Armstrong?

Neil Armstrong was in the Boy Scouts of America. Neil flew in an aeroplane when he was 6 years old, making him fall in love with planes.

Before he was an astronaut, Neil worked with aeroplanes. Armstrong helped design planes. One of the planes he flew was called the X-15 rocket plane.

After becoming an astronaut, he was in the second group of people to ever become one. He was in charge of Gemini 8. This trip was with David Scott. They were the first astronauts to connect two spacecraft in space during this mission.

Armstrong was the mission commander for Apollo 11 in 1969.

After the successful landing on the Moon, Neil Armstrong quit his job with NASA. He began teaching at a university.

Later on, he became a businessman. He was active in groups that studied space and aeronautics.

The Launching

Apollo 11 was launched on July 16, 1969. It had three people. The Commander's name was Neil Armstrong, and the two others were Michael Collins and Edwin Aldrin.

The S-IVB stage burned again and put Apollo 11 into a translunar orbit after two hours and 44 minutes. The computers of the Apollo 11 were capable of moving the daring astronauts to and from the Moon and back with only two kilobytes. Any phone available today is far superior.

The command and service module (CSM) were later separated. Then, the CSM docked with the LM.

The first colour TV transmission to Earth from Apollo 11 happened when the crew was in space. The astronauts had a successful launch, so they did not need to make more midcourse corrections.

Moon Exploration

On July 18, Neil and Buzz put on their suits and walked through the tunnel from the spacecraft to the Moon. They were checking out how things looked, and they broadcast their walk.

On July 19, Apollo 11 went behind the Moon, so they could not talk to Earth people. Then they made a move that made them go around the Moon.

On July 20, Armstrong and Aldrin went back into their LM again. They checked to see if everything was in the right place. Then they undocked from the Columbia and separated to inspect it.

An Error in Landing Apollo 11

Landing in the Sea of Tranquility was a good idea. It is flat and safe. But because of an error, Eagle landed 7 kilometres away from where it was supposed to land.

During the 12-minute powered descent, there were five unexpected computer alarms. The alarms said that the Eagle's computer system was overloaded. Mission Control said it was safe to continue the landing in all these cases.

A few minutes before landing, the crew saw an alarm. They were close to the ground and had to go down safely. But there was a problem with their navigation, and they were about to land in a place filled with rocks.

Armstrong flew the ship to a safe landing. They said, "Houston, Tranquility Base. The Eagle has landed."

When the spacecraft landed, people on the ground thought that it had 17 seconds of fuel left. But after the mission, they found out that there was more fuel left than they first thought.

"A Small Step..."

Neil Armstrong was on the Moon with Aldrin. While taking his first step, he said, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Millions of people watched him live on TV.

The first moonwalk did not last long because there was not much time. The crew could only go 60 meters away from the ship, Eagle.

Armstrong and Aldrin collected rocks from the Moon. They also placed a device to measure how far Earth is from the Moon. They also set a device that can measure moonquakes.

After half an hour, the United States of America president spoke by telephone with the astronauts. They did some ceremonies. They set up an American flag.

Sears made the American flag, but NASA wanted to keep that secret.

When John Glenn was in space, he experimented with how to eat. Astronauts brought Tang with them on their missions. NASA made it cool.

But when Apollo 11 went into space, NASA didn't want any more advertising campaigns based on the astronauts using a commercial product.

The first astronauts on the Moon took pictures of the lunar terrain, the scientific equipment, and each other.

Commemorative coins that remember the three astronauts who died in a fire and two cosmonauts who died were planted on the Moon's surface. The silicon disk that had messages from 73 countries and names of congressional leaders also stayed.

One of the astronauts deployed a package with experiments on it. Armstrong and Aldrin looked at the lunar surface and found rocks to bring to Earth.

After a seven-hour break, the engine for the spaceship fired. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin returned to the CSM with Mike Collins on board.
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Back to Earth

The astronauts would fly a "free-return" trajectory in this Apollo mission. This means that they could abort the mission anytime before they enter lunar orbit.

During the Moon landing, Collins stayed in the orbit of the Moon and Columbia. Eagle's ascent stage was on the Moon for 21.6 hours, and then it joined Columbia again.

Apollo 11 went around the Moon. The astronauts were there for 2.5 days, and they circled it 31 times.

The return to Earth was planned for July 24. The parachute was deployed.

After a flight of more than 195 hours - 36 minutes longer than was expected - Apollo 11 landed down in the waters of the Pacific Ocean. The weather at the place they wanted to land was bad, so they chose a different place.

They landed in the ocean near Hawaii after 8 days and 3 hours on a mission.

Further Investigations

Scientists did not think that the Moon had life on it. But the crew was kept in quarantine for 21 days just in case.

People studied the Apollo 11 samples after they were taken. It was found out that they are made of two types of rocks, basalt and other. Basalt is a type of rock made from molten magma solidifying.

The Apollo 11 basalts were formed 3.6 to 3.9 billion years ago, and they contain a lot of the element titanium. Breccias are made up of pieces from other rocks.

On the Moon, rocks are broken by rocks in space. This happens when there is an impact. Lunar samples show that there is no water, and they are lifeless.

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A Moon landing is the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon. This includes both manned and unmanned (robotic) missions. The first man-made object to reach the surface of the Moon was the Soviet Union's Luna 2 mission, on 13 September 1959.

The United States' Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the Moon, on 20 July 1969. There have been six manned U.S. landings (between 1969 and 1972) and numerous unmanned landings, with no soft landings happening from 22 August 1976 until 14 December 2013.

To date, the United States is the only country to have successfully flown manned missions to the Moon. The last mission was in in December, 1972.

was the first flight to send people to the moon. It was done by NASA, the American space group. It went up to space on 16 July 1969, carrying three astronauts: Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins. On 20 July 1969, Armstrong and Aldrin became the first humans to land on the moon, while Collins stayed in orbit around the Moon.

The flight was part of the Space Race. It finished the plan set by John F. Kennedy in 1961 to "land a man on the moon, and return him safely to the Earth", before the 1960s ended.

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Apollo was a NASA program that sent people to the moon. There were 11 Apollo flights. The first Apollo flight was in 1968.

The first four flights tested the spacecraft. Six of the other seven flights landed on the moon. The first moon landing took place in 1969. The last moon landing was in 1972.

Twelve astronauts walked on the moon. They studied the lunar surface. They collected moon rocks and brought them back to Earth.

NASA built the Apollo Command Module for this program. It had room for three astronauts. The crew area had about as much room as a car. They rode in it on the way to the moon and back.

Another spacecraft, the Lunar Module, was used for landing on the moon. This spacecraft carried two astronauts. It took them from orbit around the moon to the moon's surface. The Lunar Module also carried them back into the moon's orbit to the Command Module.

Two types of rockets were used for Apollo, the Saturn IB and the Saturn V (5).

The first Apollo flight used the smaller Saturn IB rocket. This rocket had two stages. That means it was made of two parts. When the first part ran out of fuel, it dropped away from the other. It burned up in Earth's atmosphere. The second part kept flying. The Saturn IB rocket was used to test the Apollo capsule in Earth orbit. It was about the size of a 22-story building.

The other 10 flights used the more powerful Saturn V rocket. This three-stage rocket could send the Apollo spacecraft to the moon. The Saturn V was as tall as a 36-story building.

The following missions flew humans during Apollo:

Apollo 8 was the first manned mission to go to the moon. This mission did not land on the moon. It orbited the moon, then came back to Earth. Apollo 8 circled around the moon on Christmas Eve 1968. The crew was Frank Borman, Bill Anders and Jim Lovell.

The first moon landing was Apollo 11. It landed on July 20, 1969. The crew of Apollo 11 was Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin. Armstrong and Aldrin walked on the moon. Collins stayed in orbit around the moon. Neil Armstrong was the first person to walk on the moon. He said, "That's one small step for (a) man; one giant leap for mankind."

Apollo 13 is one of the more famous missions to the moon. A movie was made about this flight. Apollo 13 was going to land on the moon. On the way there, the spacecraft had a problem. NASA had to figure out how to bring the astronauts home safely. They flew all the way around the moon before returning home. The crew was able to land safely on Earth.

The Apollo spacecraft that went to the moon were launched on top of a three-stage Saturn V rocket. The first two stages used all their fuel to get to orbit. The third stage pushed the spacecraft to the moon.

Once the spacecraft reached the moon, the Lunar Module and the Command Module split from each other. The two astronauts in the Lunar Module landed on the moon. The third astronaut stayed in the Command Module in orbit around the moon. On the last three missions, the Lunar Module carried a car called the lunar rover.

Astronauts drove the lunar rover around on the moon to explore farther. The lunar rovers were made so they could be folded to fit in a box on the Lunar Module. The lunar rovers were left on the moon.

When the two astronauts finished their work on the moon, they got back in the Lunar Module and launched. It went back into orbit around the moon. It connected with the Command Module. The two astronauts from the Lunar Module got back into the Command Module with the other astronaut. They left the Lunar Module behind. It crashed into the moon. Then they flew back to Earth. The Command Module landed in the ocean. A ship picked up the astronauts.

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy said he wanted America to land astronauts on the moon. He wanted it to happen during the 1960s. NASA did this with the Apollo program. It was the first time people had left Earth orbit and visited another world. These trips will help NASA explore other worlds later.

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In 1969 the Apollo 11 spacecraft carried the first people to land on the Moon. The spacecraft was launched from Cape Kennedy (now Cape Canaveral), Florida, on July 16. Four days later, Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong became the first person to step onto the Moon's surface. The Apollo 11 mission was the culmination of the Apollo program, the Moon-landing project conducted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), beginning in the early 1960s.

From the time of its launch on July 16 until its return splashdown in the Pacific Ocean on July 24, almost every major aspect of the flight of Apollo 11 was witnessed via television by hundreds of millions of people around the world. A giant 363-foot- (111-meter-) high Saturn V launch vehicle was used to propel Apollo 11 into space. It lifted off from Pad 39A at Cape Kennedy with hundreds of thousands of spectators watching. The spacecraft was first inserted into Earth orbit then boosted into lunar trajectory by the Saturn rocket's third stage. Aboard Apollo 11 were Armstrong and fellow astronauts Edwin ("Buzz") Aldrin, Jr., and Michael Collins. Their enthusiasm was evident from the beginning, as Armstrong exclaimed, "This Saturn gave us a magnificent ride....It was beautiful!"

By July 19 the astronauts began to slow the spacecraft so that it would go into lunar orbit. Apollo 11 eventually entered a nearly circular orbit between 62 and 76 miles (100 and 122 kilometers) above the surface of the Moon. On the morning of July 20 Armstrong and Aldrin crawled from the spacecraft's command module Columbia through an interconnecting tunnel into the detachable lunar module Eagle. Toward the end of the 12th lunar orbit, the Apollo 11 spacecraft became two separate spacecraft. Columbia was piloted by Collins, and Eagle was occupied by Armstrong and Aldrin.

By firing Eagle 's propulsion system, the two astronauts changed from their nearly circular orbit to an elliptical course. Its closest approach to the Moon was only 50,000 feet (15,000 meters). At this low point they again fired their engine, this time to initiate a powered descent toward the Moon's surface. At about 500 feet (150 meters) above the surface, Armstrong began maneuvering the craft manually to avoid landing in a rock-strewn crater. The main engine, however, continued under automatic control.

Armstrong soon found a clear area on which to descend. The contact light went on inside the cockpit as the 68-inch (172-centimeter) probes dangling below Eagle's footpads signaled contact with the ground. One second later the descent rocket engine was cut off. At 4:17 pm U.S. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), Armstrong radioed to NASA Mission Control in Houston, Texas, "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed." Eagle had touched down in the Sea of Tranquility, an area of the Moon selected for its level and smooth terrain.

At 10:56 pm EDT Armstrong stepped out onto the lunar soil with the now-famous words, "That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind." (In the excitement of the moment, Armstrong skipped the "a" in the statement that he had prepared.) He described the surface as "fine and powdery" and said that there was no difficulty moving about. Aldrin joined him about 20 minutes later.

The astronauts spent about two hours walking on the surface. They deployed several scientific instruments. One was a device to measure the composition of the solar wind reaching the Moon. Another was a device to receive laser beams from astronomical observatories on Earth to determine the exact distance of the two bodies from one another. They also collected about 50 pounds (23 kilograms) of rock and soil samples and took many photographs. Meanwhile, they maintained constant radio communication with NASA Mission Control.

Armstrong and Aldrin returned to the lunar module. After more than 21 hours on the Moon, the astronauts used Eagle's ascent stage to launch it back into lunar orbit. After various maneuvers, Eagle once again docked with Columbia. The trip back to Earth began soon afterward.

Splashdown of Apollo 11 occurred in the Pacific Ocean about 900 miles (1,400 kilometers) west of Hawaii on July 24. The astronauts were immediately placed in quarantine on the recovery ship. From there they were flown to Houston, where they were transferred into the large Lunar Receiving Laboratory. During their period of quarantine, the astronauts were checked for any diseases that they might have picked up on the Moon. They were released from quarantine on August 10. The Apollo 11 astronauts later participated in an international goodwill tour, during which they were hailed for their part in opening a new era in human exploration of the universe.

Today Columbia is part of the collections of the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.

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LOCATION: Sixth gas ball from the sun

DISTANCE FROM THE SUN: 838,741,509 to 934,237,322 miles (1,349,823,615 to 1,503,509,229 kilometers)

AVERAGE TEMPERATURE: -288° F (-178° C)

LENGTH OF SPACE JOURNEY FROM EARTH TO SATURN: 3 years

GRAVITY: If you weigh 100 pounds (45 kilograms) on Earth, you'd weigh 107 pounds (49 kilograms) here.

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Mission to Saturn - Get facts about this planet

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Get the facts on Saturn, the planet famous for its rings.

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Article- “Mission to Saturn” from National Geographic Kids

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Article- “Mission to Saturn” from National Geographic Kids

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LOCATION: Sixth gas ball from the sun

DISTANCE FROM THE SUN: 838,741,509 to 934,237,322 miles (1,349,823,615 to 1,503,509,229 kilometers)

AVERAGE TEMPERATURE: -288° F (-178° C)

LENGTH OF SPACE JOURNEY FROM EARTH TO SATURN: 3 years

GRAVITY: If you weigh 100 pounds (45 kilograms) on Earth, you'd weigh 107 pounds (49 kilograms) here.

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Mission to Saturn - Get facts about this planet

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Get the facts on Saturn, the planet famous for its rings.

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Saturn is one of the planets that orbit, or travel around, the Sun in the solar system. It is the second largest planet in the solar system, after Jupiter. It is known for...

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Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest planet in our solar system. Adorned with a dazzling system of icy rings, Saturn is unique among the planets.

It is not the only planet to have rings, but none are as spectacular or as complex as Saturn's. Like fellow gas giant Jupiter, Saturn is a massive ball made mostly of hydrogen and helium.

The farthest planet from Earth discovered by the unaided human eye, Saturn has been known since ancient times. The planet is named for the Roman god of agriculture and wealth, who was also the father of Jupiter.

Perhaps the most iconic of all the planets in our solar system, Saturn is heavily present in pop culture.

It provides a backdrop for numerous science fiction stories, movies, and TV shows, comics, and video games, including the "Cthulhu Mythos," "WALL-E," "2001: A Space Odyssey," and "Star Trek." In Tim Burton's film "Beetlejuice," a dusty, fictional Saturn is populated by giant sandworms. And in the 2014 movie "Interstellar," the wormhole that enables the astronauts to travel to another galaxy appears near Saturn.

Saturn is also the namesake of Saturday, arguably the best day of the week.​

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Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun, and the second largest in the solar system. It's surrounded by beautiful rings.

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Article- Facts about Saturn for Kids” from Learning Resources UK

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Article- Facts about Saturn for Kids” from Learning Resources UK

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The Ringed Giant: Fun Facts About Saturn For Kids - Let’s Go Avocado!

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Saturn is not just any planet; it’s a world of mystery, with stunning rings and a family of moons that make it unique. Let’s dive into some fascinating facts about Saturn that will amaze you!