While we continue to have global political disagreements, space exploration is often considered a way for countries to collectively work for the advancement of human race. On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, Earth’s first artificial satellite into the low earth orbit. With this achievement, human civilization entered into a new age of exploration, what we called the space age. Six decades later, we have thousands of satellites orbiting our blue marble. The launch of Sputnik 1 also marked the beginning of a race in the space between the world’s two largest powers — the United States…
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