- World Space Week is organized annually from 4 to 10 October to raise awareness about space.
- The celebration of this week was announced by the United Nations General Assembly in December, 1999.
- World Space Week was celebrated for the first time in the year 2000.
- The theme of World Space Week 2023 is ‘Space and Entrepreneurship’.
- World Space Week 4 commemorates the launch of Sputnik, the world’s first artificial satellite.
- Sputnik was launched on October 4, 1957.
