Space Explorer

The smallest planet and closest to the Sun

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The hottest planet with a thick toxic atmosphere

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Our home planet, the only known world with life

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The Red Planet with the largest volcano in the solar system

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The largest planet with a giant storm called the Great Red Spot

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The ringed planet famous for its spectacular ring system

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The tilted ice giant that rotates on its side

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The windiest planet with supersonic winds

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Earth's only natural satellite

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Jupiter's volcanic moon with active volcanoes

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Jupiter's icy moon with a subsurface ocean

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Saturn's largest moon with lakes of liquid methane

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Our star that provides energy for life on Earth

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Our home galaxy containing billions of stars

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The nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way

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The telescope that revolutionized our view of the universe

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The most powerful space telescope ever built

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Twin spacecraft exploring interstellar space

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First human to walk on the Moon

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First American woman in space

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Record holder for longest single spaceflight by a woman

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First African American to serve on ISS long-duration crew

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Commander of Artemis II mission

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First Canadian to fly to the Moon

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Record holder for longest single spaceflight by an American

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Submarine officer turned astronaut and ISS crew member

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Famous comet that returns every 76 years

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A laboratory orbiting Earth with astronauts aboard

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First crewed mission to fly around the Moon since Apollo 17 in 1972

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First crewed lunar landing in over 50 years

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Space station orbiting the Moon

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Chinese mission to return samples from far side of the Moon

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Japanese commercial lunar lander mission

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Mars rover searching for signs of ancient life

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Ancient asteroid visited by OSIRIS-REx

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The largest object in the asteroid belt

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A dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt with a heart-shaped region

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An Earth-like exoplanet in the habitable zone

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The closest known exoplanet to our solar system

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Mission that explored Saturn and its moons for 13 years

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The first crewed mission to land on the Moon

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A red supergiant star that will explode as a supernova

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