Top 10 Facts about space.

• Fruit flies is the first animal to be sent in to space in 1947.
• The first tortoise in space was in 1968.
• A monkey known as Albert II became the first mammal to go into space on a V2 rocket launched by the US in 1949.
• The first person to sleep in space was Russian cosmonaut Gherman Titov on August 6, 1961.
• A spacecraft needs a take-off velocity of at least 17,500mph,to achieve low Earth orbit
• The first creature to give birth after conceiving in space was Russian cockroach called Nadyezhda (which means “hope”) in 2007.
• In 1973, a spider named Arabella became the first to spin a web in space, answering the question of whether webs could be spun in zero gravity.
• For the purpose of international treaties, outer space begins 100km above the Earth’s sea level.
• The Milky Way galaxy we live in: is one among the BILLIONS in space.
• Footprints and tire tracks left behind by astronauts on the moon will stay there forever owing to the fact that there is no wind to blow them away on the moon.