Travelling to Space

A space shuttle is a reusable spacecraft designed to carry people and cargo into space.

An astronaut is a person trained to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft.

Sunita Williams set a record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman at the time, which was 195 days.

Rakesh Sharma was the first Indian citizen to fly into space, aboard the Soviet Soyuz T-11 mission in 1984.

Gravity is proportional to mass; Earth has significantly more mass than the moon, resulting in stronger gravity.

Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon in 1969.

The Moon's surface is covered in craters caused by the impact of meteoroids and asteroids over billions of years.

Neil Armstrong was the first person to walk on the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969.