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Feb 20, 2021 · Space race timeline. 2 August 1955: The USSR responds to the US announcement that they intend to launch the first artificial satellite into space with a satellite of their own. 4 October 1957: The USSR successfully launches Sputnik 1, the first Earth-orbiting satellite in history. 3 November 1957: The USSR successfully launches Sputnik 2 ...
Now it’s between $5 billion and $6 billion. Private enterprise is part of the 21st century space race and all three players have big commercial companies involved. Commercial companies have seen that while the risks are great, the potential profits are enormous.
Conspiracy theories surrounding the Moon landings have proved worryingly persistent in the 50 years since Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took their first small steps on the lunar surface. NASA's landmark achievement is still being challenged. Despite there being a wealth of information online debunking these conspiracy theories, the cries of ...
The Afronauts photo book has been described as a ‘fictional record’ of the Zambian Space Programme. The images depict a Moon landing with an African twist, as well as capturing the ‘homemade’ feel of Nkoloso’s project. In the photos the helmets are made out of glass domes from old street lamps, and de Middel’s 92-year-old ...
The three astronauts on Apollo 11. The Apollo 11 crew consisted of three men. Neil Armstrong - Mission Commander. Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin - lunar module pilot. Michael Collins - command module pilot. There were three parts to the spacecraft. The command module, which was the part that would return to Earth and was where the three astronauts ...
On 12 April 1961, Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) became the first human to fly in space. He flew aboard the Vostok 1 and completed one orbit of the Earth, taking 108 minutes from launch to safely parachuting to Earth. The French sent their first animal, a cat, into space on 18 October 1963.
The first woman to travel in space was Soviet cosmonaut, Valentina Tereshkova. On 16 June 1963, Tereshkova was launched on a solo mission aboard the spacecraft Vostok 6. She spent more than 70 hours orbiting the Earth, two years after Yuri Gagarin’s first human-crewed flight in space.
The Pleiades are an open star cluster, which is when a group of stars are born at a similar time from a gigantic cloud of gas and dust. As they’re made from the same material, this makes the Pleiades a stellar family. They’re believed to have been born when a cloud of gas and dust collapsed under the influence of gravity, causing the ...
After 1807: the Royal Navy and suppression of the slave trade. In 1808, the British West Africa Squadron was established to suppress illegal slave trading. Between 1820 and 1870, Royal Navy patrols seized over 1500 ships and freed 150,000 Africans destined for slavery in the Americas. Many people believed that the only way to eradicate slavery ...
Robert Falcon Scott was an officer in the Royal Navy, who had joined his first ship when he was 13. He was born in Devon and came from seafaring family, though his father ran a brewery. He married a sculptor named Kathleen Bruce in 1908, and they had one son, Peter, who became a famous naturalist.
