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The Parkes Radio Telescope is located 20km from Parkes Australia. It was one of the several Radio Telescopes to receive live television pictures of the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969.

It was completed in 1961 and was the brains of E.G. (Taffy) Bowen. It was 64m, the second largest in the southern hemisphere, and one of the first movable dishes in the world. Now after it was finished being made, it is very well used. In fact it was being used right after it was built to still around this present day. It has an 18m Antenna. This dish has been involved with Apollo missions for a while but eventually was abandoned in the early 1980's. Even though they left it to be NASA was inspired by the design of the dish and copied the basic design of it for their deep space network.

E.T.

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(1982)

E.T. was made based on an imaginary friend. It was claimed to be the most successful science fiction movie ever made.

Now E.T. himself didn't just randomly go to earth. Him and his spices wee in the forest visiting earth. Yet at the same time there was an Alien Botanists group collecting vegetation in that area. The aliens had sighted the people and they flew off on their space ship. The worst part of it was that they left E.T. behind on Earth. Now he wasn't going to be a lone for very long. When a young boy names Elliott was acting as a servant for his older brother, he was meant to go fetch some pizza for them. But to his surprise he saw something that looked like an alien, even though he ran away. Later that night E.T. found the boy, Elliott again, and he was imitating his every move. Over time Elliott's brother and sister meet this alien and are sworn to secrecy. They try to communicate with him but all he can do is levitate things to show the planets in his solar system.

Now over time Elliot and his brother and sister start to get really close to E.T. but he knows that he can't stay there forever. Which made this even harder was that Elliott, his brother and his brothers friend were on bicycles trying to escape from the Government. When they hit a dead end E.T. uses telekinesis to lift them off of the ground and bring them to the forest where the spaceship had once landed.

Valentina Tereshkova

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(Born March 6, 1937 in Yaroslavl Oblast)

Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to enter space. Out of over 400 applicants plus, narrowed down to 5 finalists she was chosen to pilot Vostok 6. It launched on June 16th 1963, and she became the first woman in space.

Over her three day stay in space, she did various test on herself. This was to see how the female body were to react in spaceflight. Yet she wasn't a likely candidate for this position. Before she became a Cosmonaut she worked as a textile-factory assembly worker and and an amateur parachutist. Following the down fall of the female cosmonaut group in 1969, she became became a prominent member of the Communist Party of The Soviet Union. She held various spots in political offices.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union she retired from politics. But to this day she is still an outstanding hero in Russia.

Laika The Dog

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Laika was a Sovietspace Dog. She was the first animal to orbit the earth and the first orbital death.

She was a stray, that was taken in and was trained with two other dogs along her side. Then she was eventually chosen to go up into space on Sputnik 2, (Nov.3 1957). The thought is sad, but the space craft was not meant to be retrievable and Laika was always intended to die. She died within hours after the launch, possibly due to overheating or a fail of the central R-7 sustainer to separate from the payload. Her death was also not made public untill 2002, instead they told people that she died because her oxygen supply ran out. Now, even though this was a tragic lose, it prooved that a human could be launched into space. Also, that they could feel weightlessness. It more or less paved a path for human spaceflight, and provided scientists with some of the first data on how a living organism would react to space environments.

Luckily they still honour this dog until this day. She has a monument in her honour in Russia. It maybe small but it holds a big place in the peoples hearts.

Olympus Mons

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The Olympus Mons is located on Mars. It just happens to be the largest volcano in our solar system.

The Olympus Mons is about the height of Mt. Everest three times over. It also spans the width of the Hawaiian Island Chain. Its surrounded by a well-defined scarp this is about 6 km high. Now well before space probes defined what it really was, astronomers knew it as the albedo feature Nix Olympica. Scientists believe that this volcano was able to form because unlike earth it has little to none active tectonic plates. Which allows a hot spot to form and to grow more and more over time and it would allow more magma to get through. Also, some of the spots on the volcano only date back to, 2 million years, which is pretty young. Scientists wouldn't be surprised to see eruptions in the future.

Now even though this amazing sight isn't on our planet. It truely is an amazing sight for anyone to see. The Olympus Monds is great and is surely getting greater.

Stephen Hawking

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(January 8, 1942)

Stephen was born into a family of 4 kids and his father was Dr. Frank Hawkings. He is a British Theoretical Physicist and an Applied Mathematician. His world renowned scientific career spans over 40 years.

In his early school years he wasn't the most exceptional student. Yet, his Math teacher was one who inspired him the most. He was so taken in by math that he wanted to go to university to study the subject, but his father didn't feel the same way. He wanted him to apply to Oxford university, where he had attended. So instead he applied to read natural science, where he had received a scholarship in. And once at University Collage he specialised in physics. Even though Stephen was passing, his unimpressive study habits resulted in a final exam score on the borderline between first and second class honours, making an oral exam necessary. He eventually got his BA degree and stayed to studying astronomy.

In 1960 he and his friends created a complex mathematical model that they created based on Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity. This lead to to Hawking proving the first of many singularity theorems. He also successfully supplied mathematical proof along with other people that that any black hole is fully described by the three properties, mass, angular momentum and electric charge. Not to mention he also claimed that the Big Bang formed mini black holes.

These are just some of the things that Stephen Hawkings had come across in his life time. There is plenty more to be said about him and his work and discoveries.

Neptune

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