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Important People
Neil Armstrong (1930—2012)
The first man to walk on the moon.
Galileo Galilei (1564—1642)
An Italian scientist and inventor who proved that the Earth orbits the sun.
Sir Isaac Newton (1964 - 1727)
He formed his theory of gravity when he watched an apple fall from a tree.
Tim Peake (1972 - present)
A British astronaut and military officer who in 2016, while on a mission to the International Space Station (ISS), became the first official British astronaut to walk in space.
Knowledge Organiser Year Group:5 Topic: Stargazers Schema:
Timeline of events
Space Race
October 1957 First satellite in
Space.
November
1957 First animal in
space.
April 1961 First human in
space.
March 1965 First space walk.
December
1968 First manned
spacecraft to
orbit the moon. July 1969 First man to walk
on the moon.
Important Places
Interna-
tional
Space
Station
(ISS)
The International Space Station is the
biggest object ever flown in space. It was
launched back in 1998 and astronauts have
been living on board ever since.
Vocabulary Dozen
solar system The collection of eight planets and their
moons in orbit round the sun, together
with smaller bodies in the form of aster-
oids, meteoroids, and comets.
orbit A curved, invisible path that a planet,
asteroid, meteoroid or asteroid but not
as big as a planet.
satellite A man-made machine or natural object
that orbits a body in space and sends
signals to and from Earth.
universe All of space and everything in it in-
cluding stats, planets and galaxies.
rotate To turn around a fixed point.
atmosphere A mixture of gases that surround a
planet
sphere/spherical A round solid figure, or its surface, with
every point on its surface equal from its
centre.
planet An almost spherical object made of
rock, metal and gas orbiting a star.
astronomer A person who makes observations
about and studies space.
star A huge, bright ball of burning gas
that is held together by gravity.
gravity The force that attracts a body towards
the centre of the earth, or towards any
other physical body having mass.
axis The imaginary line on which a planet
rotates.
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