Did you know there was a satellite race between countries to send the first satellite to orbit our planet Earth.
In 1957 October the 4th Russia was the first country to send the very first satellite to space called “Sputnik 1” and it started orbiting Earth.
Did you know that the first living thing to land in space was a brave dog named Laika, The journey was fine until she died, lasting only eight days in space.
On this day there are around three thousand satellites orbiting our planet Earth. The first people to land on the moon were two brave men named Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin in 1969.
Satellites changed the world because they helped us make communication much easier and they sent warnings to keep us safe, without satellites it would be hard to see each other again.