10 Interesting Fact About Space travel and exploration technology

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• The first time humans set foot on the moon were in 1969 by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.
• The time needed to reach Mars from the earth varies depending on the planet's position, but on average it takes about 7 months to reach Mars.
• Voyager 1 spacecraft, which was launched in 1977, has reached the solar system limit and is now in space between stars.
• Cassini-Huygens spacecraft has explored the Planet Saturn and its satellite for 13 years before finally being destroyed intentionally in 2017.
• The first astronaut to carry out spacewalk or walk outside the spaceship was Alexei Leonov from the Soviet Union in 1965.
• The spacecraft used by NASA to send humans to the moon is Apollo.
• Hubble Telescopes have given the most detailed pictures of space that have been seen by humans.
• In 2012, an astronaut named Sunita Williams managed to run a marathon above the space station.
• NASA is developing a new rocket technology called the Space Launch System (SLS) to bring humans to Mars in the 2030s.
• There are more than 3,000 satellites that orbit the earth today, used for communication, weather observations, and navigation.