Topics: 

-When humans first went to space
-What planets are in our small solar system of space
-Who’s playing in space now

-The first U.S. satellite, Explorer 1, went into orbit on Jan. 31, 1958.
-The first human in space was the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, who made one orbit around Earth on April 12, 1961, on a flight that lasted 108 minutes.

-Kennedy challenged the United States to a super big goal, declaring: “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before the decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth."

-In 1969, on Apollo 11, the United States sent the first astronauts to the Moon, and Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot on its surface

-International Space Station is a research laboratory in low Earth orbit.

-continuously occupied since the arrival of Expedition 1 in November of 2000 (That means over 20 years since all humans have been on planet earth)

-starting nearest the sun and working outward is the following: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and then the possible Planet Nine Once upon a time Pluto was called a planet and it is between Neptune and planet 9 or Planet X (Why two names folks? IDK) 

-NASA is on a journey to Mars, with a goal of sending humans to the Red Planet in the 2030s.

-Jeff Bezos & that other dude: Richard Branson have both been and now have plans to go back again. 

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