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In 1949, Dorothy Vaughan became the first African American woman to lead a team at NASA's Langley Research Center. Her work as a mathematician was an important part of helping the United States explore space. Learn more about Vaughan's life as a famous mathematician!

Today, everyone is familiar with Neil Armstrong's famous words as he first set foot on the moon: "one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind." But America's journey to the moon was anything but simple. In 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the world's first satellite, into orbit; later that year, America's first attempt was such a failure that the media nicknamed it "Kaputnik." Still, we didn't give up. With each failure, we gleaned valuable information about what went wrong, and how to avoid it in the future. So we tried again. And again. And each time we failed, we failed a little bit better.

ബഹിരാകാശം എല്ലാത്തിന്റെയും കേന്ദ്ര ബിന്ദുവാണ്. ബഹിരാകാശത്തെ കുറിച്ചുള്ള ഒരു അന്വേഷണമാണ് ലൈക്ക. ശാസ്ത്ര കുതുകികളെ ഹഠാതാകർഷിക്കുന്ന ഒരു പക്ഷേ വി.ജെ ജയിംസിന്റെ ഏറ്റവും മികച്ച ഈ പുസ്തകം ആകാശത്തിന്റെ പരിമിതികളെക്കുറിച്ച് നമ്മെ സ്വയം അന്വേഷിക്കുവാൻ പ്രേരിപ്പിയ്ക്കുന്നു.

Have you ever dreamed of going to outer space? When Sally Ride was a little girl, she watched on TV as astronaut John Glenn launched into space. Twenty years later, she became the first American woman to go to space. Ride had loved science since she was young. Some of her teachers thought she was wasting her time studying science, but she went on to earn her PhD in astrophysics anyway. When NASA's astronaut training program opened to women, Ride quickly applied. Some people thought women couldn't handle space flight. But Ride worked hard and proved them all wrong.

Did you know that companies and governments send more than 100 satellites into space every year? And that most of those satellites continue to orbit Earth - even after they have stopped working? More than 500,000 old satellites, pieces of metal, and other bits of junk currently pollute Earth's orbit. And that number is growing. Astronomers, engineers, and politicians all agree that the future of space exploration is in danger if this debris isn't taken care of. But the problem of garbage in space is difficult and expensive to solve.

Did you know that astronauts work on Earth and in space to study places beyond our planet's atmosphere? But there's a lot more to space travel than just research. With no gravity, a wild schedule that includes 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets every 24 hours, and no fresh food, it can be a challenge to stay healthy in orbit. Public and private space agencies are working to solve these problems as humans travel farther and more frequently into the depths of space. Learn more about the daily lives of astronauts and how they live, work, and prepare for the future in space.

Welcome, young cosmic adventurers, to an out-of-this-world journey that will ignite your imagination, spark your curiosity, and launch your love for learning into the cosmos. Brace yourself for an immersive audiobook experience that will take you on an intergalactic joyride through the captivating Discoveropolis series.