First astronaut

🚀 Follow us: @astronomyhub 🔭 This is a real photo of Bruce McCandless, the first astronaut to float untethered in space. 👨‍🚀 “That may have been one small step for Neil, but it’s a heck of a big leap for me” - Bruce McCandless 🔭

Man on the moon. Apollo 11

If your children are learning about space exploration or key personalties from history then these Neil Armstrong Fact Cards will be just what you are looking for. They contain fascinating key facts related to this famous astronaut; all written at a suitable level for KS1 children.

It sounded like a ‘hammer hitting an iron bucket’, is what China's first astronaut said to describe a noise he heard while in space.Yang Liwei said he heard a mysterious sound while in orbit during 2003.

China's first female astronaut Liu Yang is now in a space capsule orbiting the Earth after successfully blasting off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre.

NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless, the first person to fly freely and untethered in space, died Thursday in California, NASA's Johnson Space Center announced.

Science Heroes — The Josh Abraham

First man on the moon Neil Armstrong dies aged 82

Space suit

Portrait of Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander of the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing mission in his space suit, with his helmet on the table in front of him. Behind him is a large photograph of the lunar surface.

Charlie Duke Apollo 16 1972

California man Jonny Kim, 35, went from a Navy SEAL to Harvard medical doctor to NASA Astronaut, after graduating from training this month.

NASA astronaut Frank Borman, commander of the first Apollo mission to the moon, has died at age 95.

People criticized Anna Lee Fisher for leaving her baby, but she never had any doubts.

Fun!

Gus Grissom (1926-1967)

1966: A space selfie, taken by astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin