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Space

Emily Baker

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Milleniums

• The first millennium, 1 - 1000 AD, consisted of 365,250 days.

• The third millennium, 2001 - 3000 AD, will consist of 365,242 days.

• Our current millennium, 1001 - 2000 AD, will consist of 365,237 days.

• The reason for the differences is the calendar system that was in use during the milleniums.

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The S

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Began on the 4th of October 1957

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The first woman in spacewas a Russian called Valentina Tereshkova

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Any free-moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere, because of its surface tension.

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Just 20 seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar

module landed on the moon.

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The only married couple to fly together in space were Jan Davis and Mark Lee, who flew aboard the Endeavour space shuttle from

September 12-20, 1992.

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Mercury, Venus, earth and Mars are called the inner planets as they are closest to the sun!

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Olympus Mons, a volcano found on Mars, is the largest volcano found in the solar

system. It is 370 miles (595 km) across and rises 15 miles (24 km).

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Driving at 75 miles (121 km) per hour, it would take 258 days to drive around one of Saturn's rings.

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We know more about space than we do about our deep

oceans!

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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

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• One Day on Pluto is about the length of a week on Earth

• Pluto is no longer a planet. It is now classified as part of the Kuiper Belt.

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December 21st 1968, was the first time that humans truly left Earth, when Apollo 8 became the first manned space vehicle to leave Earth orbit and to orbit the Moon.