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Passport to Space. Get ready for liftoff! Journey beyond Earth with out-of-this-world facts, photos, books, and games about all things space.
Space Explorer. Use your astronaut’s rocket boosters to avoid obstacles and collect stars as you explore the planets in our solar system. You'll unlock new far-out facts along the way!
Learn about the history of humans traveling into space. The first earthling to orbit our planet was just two years old, plucked from the streets of Moscow barely more than a week before her historic launch. Her name was Laika. She was a terrier mutt and by all accounts a good dog.
On February 18, 2021, a robotic rover named Perseverance is scheduled to land on Mars after an eight-month journey. Like a science lab on wheels, the robot will explore the red planet to help determine if life ever existed here—and help to prepare the planet for human exploration.
The sun is the real star of the show—literally! The closest star to Earth, it’s the source of all the heat and light that makes flowers bloom, songbirds croon, and sunbathers swoon. Life wouldn’t exist without it. It's also the center of our solar system and by far its largest object.
These oddball balls of light followed their own paths across the night sky, so the ancient Greeks called them “planetes,” meaning wanderers. By 1930, nine planets had been discovered: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. But what exactly is a planet?
Use your astronaut’s rocket boosters to avoid obstacles and collect stars as you explore the planets in our solar system.
Science fiction writers have proposed exploring Jupiter in hot-air balloons high above the crushing depths below, but you’re happy sipping cocoa aboard your ship in orbit. It’s a safer place to watch Jupiter’s spectacular cloud bands whiz by at more than 300 miles an hour (530 kilometers an hour).
On July 20, 1969, millions of people gathered around their televisions to watch two U.S. astronauts do something no one had ever done before. Wearing bulky space suits and backpacks of oxygen to breathe, Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin became the first human beings to walk on the moon.
If you’re on a dark countryside hill some night, look up at the sky. Arcing overhead, a faint band of light may appear that looks like milk spilled across the sky. The ancient Romans called the band via lacteal, which means “milky road” or “milky way.”.