- MAKEMAKE is the second most massive known dwarf planet in the Solar System (after Eris) and the tenth-most massive body observed directly orbiting the Sun.
- Sputnik II, first artificial satellite, was launched 3 November, 1957.
- The first Western Scientist to suggest that the Earth revolved around the Sun was Copernicus.
- Skylab was space laboratory launched in 1973. It belonged to USA.
- In 1979 Sky Lab did break up in the atmosphere and fell back to the earth.