Who gets to be an Astronaut?

“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Astronaut Neil Armstrong spoke these words on July 20, 1969, as he became the first person ever to step onto the Moon.An astronaut is a space traveler. Astronauts fly into space on spaceships. They go where there is no...

What is the Milky Way?

WHAT IS THE MILKY WAY?The Milky Way is a huge group of stars called a galaxy. There are billions of stars in the Milky Way. The Sun and all nearby stars are part of the Milky Way Galaxy. There are also huge clouds of gas and dust in between the stars. New stars form in the clouds...