Video - Space Chronicles: Mind-Blowing Space History Facts

Did you know that the first living creatures to go to space were fruit flies in 1947? When Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit Earth in 1961, he smuggled a sandwich on board. In 1969, the Apollo 11 astronauts left a plaque on the moon that reads "Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the moon." In 1977, the Voyager spacecrafts were launched with golden records containing sounds and images representing Earth. The Hubble Space Telescope can see galaxies 13.4 billion light-years away. Black holes aren't actually holes, but incredibly dense objects with strong gravitational pull. Stay tuned for more mind-blowing space history facts!