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Chosen to be the first Black astronaut, he got to space six decades later
The first person to go faster than the speed of sound ... Many of the men in his graduating class went to space, including David Scott. The U.S. government spent nearly a quarter-million dollars ...
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The first human in space
The cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin went down in history as the first human ever to enter space. From humble beginnings he would attain the rank of senior lieutenant fighter as a pilot in the Soviet Air ...
Time7y
Meet the Heroic Animals That Went Into Space Before Humans
went on to live a long life, dying on January 19, 1983, at the age of 26. France’s first astro-critter came late to the space game. Her name was Felicette and she was launched on a 15-minute ...
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The first space walk
On 18 March 1965 Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person to leave a space capsule and, tethered to it, float freely in orbit – to space-walk. He was pilot of the Voskhod 2 mission ...
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Alexei Leonov: First person to walk in space dies aged 85
"Legendary cosmonaut" Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov, the first person to walk in space, has died in Moscow aged 85. Russian space agency Roscosmos confirmed his death on its website, but gave no ...
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What did children do in the 1960s?
Nanna: I once wanted to be an astronaut too. People went to space for the very first time when I was little. It was all over the news. Let’s travel back and take a look. Young Nanna: When I was ...