The space race is filled with glamorous rockets, astronauts and sparkling new space stations, but people rarely think about all the junk from previous missions left orbiting the earth. As we prepare ...

October 5: The Soviet daily newspaper Pravda mentions Sputnik in a short piece at the bottom of page one. When bold headlines ...

On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial satellite, and ushered in the Space Age. The era would accelerate scientific and technological development in the ...

The Space Race was a technological battle fought by Soviet and American scientists and engineers, and by Soviet cosmonauts ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Space may be the final frontier, but the modern race to launch rockets and satellites at an unsurpassed rate has generated a large and rapidly ...

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