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Everyone Who Has Ever Been to Space, Charted
Now more than 700 people have flown past the 50-mile-high mark that was considered the boundary of space when spaceflight first got started. At that time, the Soviet Union and the U.S. were the ...
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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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OTD In Space – February 7: 1st Untethered Spacewalk
NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless became the first person to go on a spacewalk without a tether. McCandless was wearing a type ...
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Who was Neil Armstrong?
The Soviet Union put the first person into space, so President Kennedy of the United States of America set a challenge. We will go to the Moon! Not because it is easy but because it is hard.
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Meet Katya Echazarreta—The First Mexican Woman in Space
In celebration of International Day of Women and Girls in Science (Feb. 11, 2025), I wanted to share a story of a person who ...