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Ever since the beginning of time, mankind has been fascinated with wonders of
space. Before the mid-1900s, all mankind could do was gaze at the stars from
Earth and wonder what it would be like to go into space. Man would look through
telescopes and make theories on how the universe worked. During the mid-1900s,
mankind finally was able to send a man into space and explore the wonders of
space first hand. So why do humans explore space? Well, it is our fascination
with the unknown. At first, all mankind did was look up and wonder how things
became what they are now. We started to think that all celestial bodies revolved
around the Earth, and the Earth was the center of the entire universe. Galileo
Galelie later disproved this theory. Even with growing knowledge in the field,
it was not until 1957 when the first Earth orbiter, the Soviet's Sputnik 1, was
sent into space and placed in orbit at an altitude of 1,370 miles and weighed
184 pounds. Later in that year, the Soviets sent Sputnik 2 into space with a
dog-named Laika. Laika was the first animal to venture into space. Then in 1985,
the United States successfully sent their very own satellite into space. In
1960, the Soviets launched to dogs into space and successfully returned them to
Earth. From this point started the space race. The space race was a challenge
between the USSR and the United States to see who could land a man on the moon
first. In 1961, the first man in space was cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin who was in
space for 60 minutes before returning to Earth in Vostok 1 and was sent by the
USSR. Astronaut Shepard flew the first manned sub-orbital space flight by the
Americans. The first true American orbital flight was by John Glen and he stayed
in space for five hours in Mercury 6 in 1962. Then in 1963, the USSR sent the
first...
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