Did you know? The SR-71 Blackbird holds the record for the fastest air-breathing manned aircraft at over 2,000 mph.

The Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, on October 4, 1957. It orbited Earth for three months before falling back into the atmosphere.

Launched in 1977, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is the most distant human-made object from Earth, now in interstellar space, over 14 billion miles away!