15 interesting facts about space and astronauts: tell the children

April 12 is World Day of Aviation and Astronautics. In honor of the holiday of our editorial staff has collected interesting facts about space and astronauts, who will certainly need to tell the children.

Date of today's feast chosen on purpose. April 12, 1961 - Yuri Gagarin made the first orbital circled the Earth, revealing to mankind the way to space. Since space missions have changed a lot. People walked on the moon, flew into orbit the first tourists into space, and even brought pizza.

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Facts about the cosmos

The stars of the constellation WainThat we used to see, together, they are in different galaxies.

earth regularly attack meteorites. Every day, about two hundred thousand falls of meteorites, but due to the small size of almost all of them burn up in the atmosphere.

Want to find out the length of your jump on the Moon? Jump as far as possible, measure the length of the jump and multiply by six. About the length of your jump would have been on the moon, because there is less gravity and the longer a person is in a jump.

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some day on Venus Earth lasts about 7 months.

BUT Pluto 1 year It lasts 248 Earth years. It turns out that while Pluto makes one revolution around the Sun, the Earth makes them 248.

Venus is the only planet in the solar system, which rotate counterclockwise.

In 2011, astronomers We discovered a planet - dream jewelers. It consists of 92% diamond. Precious celestial body is 5 times bigger than Earth.

Into the space delivered pizza. In 2001, a network organized pizzeria pizza delivery to the International Space Station. This is the most expensive pizza delivery in history - it has cost the company millions of dollars. But the effect of such advertising was terrific.

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Facts about astronauts

During the day, the astronauts in orbit admire the sunrise 16 times.

astronauts do not snore in spaceEven if doing it on Earth.

The astronauts who landed on the moon, had to return home pass customs control. they pointed their valuable cargo in the customs declaration: "Moon rocks and dust."

People in orbit suffer from "space sickness." This happens due to weightlessness. Astronauts feel sick, and they may feel dizzy.

In orbit, the person becomes above an average of 4-5 centimeters. In weightlessness, the spine straightens.

Many things that we use on earth were invented for astronauts. For example, baby foodsEnriched with vitamins and minerals, water filters, infrared ear thermometer and even equipment for firefighters.

Equipment includes astronauts wearing firearms. But do not think that it is to deal with the UFO. Weapons need for protection from wild animals if returned to Earth cosmonaut is on an uninhabited area.

Where can I find more information about the cosmos?

To see the Earth from outer space does not necessarily become a space tourist, or an astronaut, on YouTube-channel goes live broadcast of NASA International Space Station. Also on the channel are placed interesting video of astronauts life. On this video, for example, they are preparing a pizza.

By the way, to find out the latest news from the cosmos subscribe to the NASA page in Instagram. There they spread unearthly beauty photo of different planets, including our own.