The Solar System is made up of the Sun, the planets, and their moons.
Don’t forget about Meteors, Asteroids, and other Near Earth Objects.
The Sun contains more than 99.8% of the total mass of the Solar System (Jupiter contains most of the rest).
The several-days-long flight of the various Apollo missions [to the moon] in the ’60s and ’70’s would not even get them to two-thirds of the Sun’s radius,
All nine planets can be seen with a small telescope; all but Pluto can be seen with binoculars.
