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The International Space Station Construction
On November 20, 1998, the ISS was built, it is an international manned orbital station used as a multipurpose space research complex. This joint project involved 14 countries. One of the main station launch objectives w…
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The launch of the Mir space station base block.
On February 19, 1986, the base block of the Mir space station was launched. The base block is designed to provide working and rest conditions for the crew (up to six people), to control of the on-board systems, electric…
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The first reusable spacecraft.
Columbia was the first reusable spacecraft created by NASA. A test flight on it took place on April 12, 1981, which was (and remains) unique: it was a test launch of a spacecraft, but it was with the crew on board. The…
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The world's first soft landing on Mars.
On December 2, 1971, the Soviet AIS Mars-3 made the world's first soft landing on Mars. The Mars-3 was designed to explore Mars both from orbit and directly on the planet surface. During the work on the Mars-3, the Mars…
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The first landing on another planet - Venus.
On December 15, 1970, the Soviet AIS Venera-7, designed to study Venus, made a soft landing on Venus. For the first time people receive data on Venus collected with help of equipment designed to study the cosmic particl…
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The first person on the Moon
On July 16, 1969, for the first time in history, the crew of the American manned spacecraft Apollo 11 landed on another celestial body, besides the Earth, - they landed on the Moon. The first person to set foot on the M…
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Let's Go!
58 years ago this very day mankind took one of the most important steps in its history. The first manned spaceflight, performed by the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, changed our world forever. But as the engines of the…
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The first soft landing on the Moon
On February 3, 1966, the Soviet automatic lunar station (ALS) Luna-9, for the first time in the space exploration history, made a soft landing on the lunar surface, transmitted panoramic images of the lunar landscape to…
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The first spacewalk
During the flight, the Soviet cosmonaut A. Leonov on March 18, 1965 made the first spacewalk in the cosmonautics history, which lasted 12 minutes 9 seconds. While landing, the automatic orientation system failed. P. Bel…
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The lunar surface clear photographs
On April 23, 1962, American AIC Ranger-7 transmitted to the Earth the Moon photos taken at close range. The flight purpose was to reach the lunar surface and transmit clear photographs during the flight final minutes be…
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Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin
On April 12, 1961, the Soviet pilot Yuri Gagarin became the first person in the world history who made a flight into outer space. The flight purpose was to check the possibility of man’s stay in space, the ship equipmen…
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Belka and Strelka.
Belka and Strelka. The Soviet spacecraft Sputnik-5, launched on August 19, 1960, carried dogs Belka and Strelka and put them into orbit. The flight main purpose was to study the effects of the body overload and prolonge…
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The Moon first photographs.
On October 7, 1959, the USSR launched the AIS Luna-3, which had a system of photo-telemetric orientation relatively to the Sun and the Moon, as well as radio, photo-television systems, a thermal control system and a sci…
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Flight to the moon.
On September 14, 1959, the Soviet automatic interplanetary station (AIS) Luna-2 reached the surface of the moon. The station was an unpowered vehicle, it literally crashed into the moon at a speed of 3.3 km/s and scatte…
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The first animal in Earth orbit.
On November 3, 1957 USSR launched Sputnik 2 carrying a living animal - a dog named Laika. This event was a great achievement, but, no matter how sad it was, the Laika's return to the Earth was impossible and unprogramme…
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The first artificial satellite of the Earth.
On October 4, 1957, the USSR launched the world's first artificial Earth satellite into the orbit. The USSR considered it necessary to be ahead of the Americans. Therefore, instead of a complex scientific satellite, whi…
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