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  • Annual budget of NASA
  • Annual number of objects launched into space
  • Chlorophyll-a deviation from the global average
  • Cost of space launches to low Earth orbit
  • Cumulative number of exoplanets discovered, by method
  • Cumulative number of gravitational wave observations
  • Cumulative number of human visits to space
  • Cumulative number of objects launched into space
  • Cumulative number of people who have been to space
  • Near-Earth asteroids discovered over time
  • Payloads and rocket bodies in space, by orbit
  • Tracked objects in low Earth orbit, by type

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