July 20, 1969: One Small Step … One Giant Leap …
The Soviet Union was first to land a spacecraft on the moon, in 1959, but NASA’s Neil Armstrong becomes the first human to set foot on the lunar surface, realizing humanity’s age-old dream. And...
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June 14, 1962: Western Europe Officially Joins the Space Race
1962: An agreement establishing the European Space Research Organisation, forerunner to the European Space Agency, is signed. The Western Europeans were as shocked as the Americans by the Soviet...
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Oct. 4, 1957: Soviets Put Man-Made Moon in Orbit!
The shock of Sputnik reverberates around the world, heralding not only the dawn of the Space Age but the ratcheting up of an already heated Cold War.
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Oct. 7, 1959: Luna 3′s Images From the Dark Side
Soviet space probe Luna 3 takes the first photographs of the far side of the moon. They aren't transmitted back to Earth until 11 days later.
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