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Astronomy For Kids
By:Kum Martin

The whole mankind has almost spent more than 2000 years to understand the Universe and the solar system that we live in. Researchers since past thousands of years have recorded whatever they came to know about the Universe. The curiosity to know about the universe in a few astronomers has revealed a lot of secrets of heaven. Man from the ancient times always wanted to know about the Universe and explore the space. In the year 1959, NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) in the United States short listed 7 people to be the first astronauts that will travel in the space.

The first project in the history of mankind that allowed the human beings to orbit the earth was the project Gemini and Mercury whose main task was to take a spacecraft to the earth's orbit, stay and come back safely with the spacecraft to the earth's surface. The famous Apollo program was initiated in the year 1961 with a mission to land on the moon's surface. It took several years for research and test flights when finally astronauts Neil Armstrong, Aldrin and Michael Collins in the year 1969 landed on the surface of moon. The flight that landed on the moon successfully was Apollo 11.

After the successful landing of Apollo 11 several quest have been made to moon with spaceflight programs like Apollo-Soyaz, Space Shuttle and Skylab. These all missions were to land on moon but we have never landed on any other planet or object like the Asteroids. NASA has sent a number of unmanned spacecrafts in the solar system to collect information and on the planets too like mars. There is a long list of unmanned space vehicles like the Viking 1 and 2, Mariner, Pioneer 10 and 11, Explorer, Magellan, Venus 1 and 2, Voyager 1 and 2, Galileo, Lunar Orbiter, Clementine and Surveyor.

Kum Martin is an online leading expert in education. He also offers top quality articles like:
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