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magazine article: Space: "If you point a rifle straight up into the sky and shoot a bullet, what happens?" Read article

magazine article: Wormholes: "Have you ever seen the science fiction film 'Contact'? If you have, then you will remember the scene near the end of the film, when the heroine travels to the star Vega, twenty-six light years away from Earth, through a wormhole in space." Read article

magazine article: The Moon: "As the brightest and biggest thing in the night sky, the moon has inspired music, poetry and stories for centuries. Federico Garcia Lorca wrote a ballad about it. Debussy composed a piece for piano. Frank Sinatra wanted someone to fly him there." Read article

word game: Solar system riddle. Read the riddle and put the names of the planets in the correct order. Play game

word game: Science fiction. Read a text about some space explorers and fill in the blanks. Play game

poem:. Star-gazers. in this interesting poem William Wordsworth explores what goes through people's minds when they look at the stars through a telescope. Read poem

cartoon: "I'm going to be an astronaut when I grow up" "Goodness ..." See cartoon
"Houston, we're coming home" "But you're supposed to stay on the moon for three days" "Well, I'm sorry, but ..." See cartoon

trivia: Wordplay. Life on Mars is an anagram of Alien forms See more space trivia

history: Challenger explodes | Manned space flight | Moon landing | US-USSR space link-up

science: cubed. Asteroid explorer. Proposed space probe to track the Apophis asteroid could predict any risk of impact. Read story

science: cubed. Moon rocket. UK-led MoonLITE aims to finish what the Apollo missions started. Read story

science: cubed. Smart dust: Swarms of tiny sensors may revolutionise remote space exploration. Read story

science: cubed. Stereo sun: Three-dimensional software allows us to see the Sun as it really is for the first time. Read story

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