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Beyond the eight planets orbiting our sun… the next largest objects are the cohort of so-called Dwarf Planets. Tomorrow marks the 54th anniversary of astronaut Scott Carpenter’s three-orbit flight in 1962 – he was the first American to eat food in space. The first primates went to space on May 28th, 1959.

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