The people who work in space

Find out more about astronauts and what they do in space.

On 20 July 1969, American astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the Moon. Fifty-five years later, humans are still exploring space. China has achieved lots of exciting things recently, including landing a spacecraft on the far side of the Moon – and even taking fish to the Chinese space station to see how they adapt to space. The head of NASA (the US space agency), Bill Nelson, said that the US and China are in a “space race” to see who can return humans to the Moon first, but let’s see how you get into space in the first place. When did humans first go to space? The first artificial satellite (a man-made object that is placed into orbit by rockets) to be sent into space…

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