National Space Day: First Friday in May
Videos
Watch amazing scenes that capture Apollo 11's historic Moon mission and listen to Neil Armstrong as he utters his famous words "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind".
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Learn the order of the planets.
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Learn more about the amazing Hubble Space Telescope in this video which pays tribute to the project that has helped astronomers form a greater understanding of both our solar system and deep space. Hubble has left a stunning legacy of information to astronomy researchers over the years and continues to produce more to this very day. Hubble has taken a huge range of beautiful high resolution images of planets, stars, galaxies and more, giving the general public reason to be interested in space as well as scientists.
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Watch this Mars rover video and learn more about the rover called Opportunity which helped scientists make remarkable discoveries about the Mars that exists now as well as what it might have been like millions of years ago.
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Watch an amazing animation of a black hole destroying a star. The incredible gravitational pull of the black hole gives the star no chance of escape.
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See the space shuttle Discovery from a number of interesting angles as it blasts off from its launch pad and into space in spectacular fashion.
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