What are the most important things in space?

40 most important events in space exploration

• International Space Station.
• Landing on an asteroid.
• First space tourist.
• Cassini spacecraft sends back images of Saturn’s rings.
• Mars rover landing.
• Musk rocket returns to Earth.
• 7 Earth-size planets found.
• Probing moon and rings.

What are 2 benefits of space travel?

The benefits of space can be categorized as either direct or indirect. The direct benefits of exploration include the generation of scientific knowledge, the diffusion of innovation and creation of markets, the inspiration of people around the world, and agreements forged between the countries engaged in exploration.

Why is it important for humans to go to space?

The ultimate purpose of going into space is to live and work there — just as the ultimate purpose of exploring the New World was colonization — and not merely to sit back on Earth and cogitate about what automated spacecraft report back. We cannot begin to live and work in space without first going there.

What is the most important space exploration?

Here we explore five of the most important and memorable moments in spaceflight history.

• First Satellite in Space. Sputnik 1.
• First Man in Space. Yuri Gagarin.
• The Lunar Landing. Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin on the Moon.
• Launch of the Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble Space Telescope.
• Flight of the First Private Spacecraft.

What do u need in space?

Astronauts must have oxygen, food, water, and rest. These needs are usually simple to meet on Earth; to meet these needs in space is very complicated. The gases in space cannot support human life. In fact, most of space contains no gases at all—it is what scientists call a vacuum.

How do astronauts get into space?

Typically, astronauts travel to the space station via a Russian Soyuz capsule (first launched in 1967), which has long been the only spacecraft that ferries people to the ISS, since NASA’s space shuttle programme retired in 2011.