Neil Armstrong On July 20, 1969, the US Apollo 11 mission landed the first men, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, on the moon. |
John Glenn On February 20, 1962, the USA spacecraft named "Friendship 7" carried John Glenn around the Earth three times. |
Edwin Hubble In the 1920's Edwin Hubble develped a scheme to identify galaxies. The Hubble Space Telescope, launched in 1990, was named after Edwin Hubble. |
Nicholas Copernicus In 1543 Copernicus suggested that the Sun rotated at the center of our solar system. He published a book "On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres".
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Isaac Newton In 1687, Isaac Newton published his law of Motion and Gravitation. Newton concluded that the Sun's gravitational force keeps the planets in their orbit. |
Who was the first astronaut to walk on the moon? |
Name the first American astronaut to orbit the earth. |
Who established the system astronomers' use to classify galaxies? |
Who developed the theory that planets revolve around the sun? |
Who discovered the Law of Gravity showing that the movement of the stars and planets can be predicted? |
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