More Space Exploring Facts
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	Since 1961, more than 400 human beings have ventured into space.
	Robert Goddad  is the father of American rocketry.
	Valentin Glushko was a Russian rocket pioneer who began study in the problem of using reactive rocket power for space flight as early as 1917.
	Snoopy, the Peanuts Comic Strip, character is the astronauts' personal safety mascot.
	A spacesuit weighs approximately 280 pounds on the ground -- without the astronaut in it.
	Each Space Shuttle astronaut is allotted 3.8 pounds of food per day (including the one pound of packaging).
	Columbia was the first Space Shuttle that traveled to Earth orbit.
	Did you know that to apply to be an astronaut, a pilot must have completed 1000 hours of flying time in a jet aircraft?
	Astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt from Apollo 17 was the first scientist-astronaut to fly a space mission. He was a geologist.
	On August 20, 1982 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman on a space station.
	On Feb. 20, 1986 the Mir Space Station became the first third-generation Space Station to be launched. Mir means ""peace" or "village" in Russian.
	Skylab was longer than a twelve-story building and contained almost 12,000 cubic feet of living space.
	Can you hear in space? In theory, if there is nothing to receive the sound, there is no sound.
	The 100th flight in shuttle program history was made by Space Shuttle Columbia.
	The Space Shuttle's accomplishments over the past 20 years include: launching 3 million pounds of cargo; transporting more than 600 passengers and pilots; cumulatively spending more than three years in flight; and  traveling more than 366 million miles.
	The Space Shuttle travels about 17,600 miles per hour when orbiting the Earth.
	Canada, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Japan, Russia, Brazil, and the United States are all building parts of the International Space Station.
	The US & Russia launched the first pars of the ISS in 1998. It is scheduled to be fully assembled by 2004.The station has had a fully operational crew since January 2000.
	Skylab, the first US space station, was launched in 1973.
	Virgil Guisson, one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts, died in the Apollo 1 fire on January 27, 1967, America's first major tragedy in space.//
	Jugderdemidyn Gurragcha was the first Mongolian cosmonaut researcher in space.
	Georgy Ivanov was the first Bulgarian cosmonaut researcher in space.
	Sigmund Jaehn was the first German cosmonaut researcher in space.
	Joseph Kerwin was the first medical doctor to do medical research aboard Skylab.
	Yevgeny Khrunav was the first Soviet cosmonaut to transfer from one spacecraft to another by spacewalking on January 19, 1969.
	Valadimir M. Komarov was first to die during space mission because the reentry parachute failed to deploy properly, Soviet astronaut April 24, 1967.
	Valery Kubasov was the first soviet cosmonaut to attempt construction in space operating with a welding device. He was also involved with Alexi Leonov in the launching with American Apollo 18 spacecraft in the famous Apollo-Soviet joint mission.
	Kathryn Sullivan was the first American woman space-walker on Space Shuttle mission 41-6 (Oct. 1984)
	Abdud Ahad Mohmand was the first Afghan cosmonaut in space.
	Ulf Merbold was the first non-American to fly into space aboard a U.S. space vehicle.
	Dumitru Prunariu was the first Rumanian cosmonaut researcher in space in May of 1981.
	Valadmir Remek was the first Czechoslavakian cosmonaut researcher in space in March of 1978 on Soviet mission Soyuz 28.
	Judy Resnik was the second American woman to fly in space. Died on U.S. Space Shuttle Challenger on January 28, 1986.
	Sultan Bin Salman al-Saud was the first Saudi Arabian astronaut to go into space on Space Shuttle Discovery Mission 51-6 (June 1985).
	Sveltlana Savitskaya was the second Soviet woman to fly in space on Soyuz 77 (August 1982).
	T. Keith Glennan was the first administrator of  NASA when it was established on October 1, 1958.

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