How and when did humans discover there was no air in space?

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How and when did humans discover there was no air in space?

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Scientists noticed long ago that air pressure decreases as you climb mountains. It was Blaise Pascal (who the unit of pressure Pascals is named after) who conducted this experiment which led other scientists to believe that at a certain altitude, you would get a near-perfect vacuum.

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