Top five milestones in space exploration history
Erik Gregersen, astronomy and space exploration editor of Encyclopædia Britannica, picking his top five milestones in space exploration.
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The top five milestones of space exploration I would pick are:
Number 1: the launch of the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, in 1957;
Number 2: the flight of the first man, Yury Gagarin, into space, and that proved that people could survive in space and return;
Number 3: the landing of Apollo 11 on the Moon;
Number 4: the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope. That solved several key questions about the universe; and
Number 5: the flights of SpaceShipOne--the first private spacecraft. That is I think the beginning of the new space age in which space is not just something that big countries do, but space is something that private citizens can do.
Number 1: the launch of the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, in 1957;
Number 2: the flight of the first man, Yury Gagarin, into space, and that proved that people could survive in space and return;
Number 3: the landing of Apollo 11 on the Moon;
Number 4: the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope. That solved several key questions about the universe; and
Number 5: the flights of SpaceShipOne--the first private spacecraft. That is I think the beginning of the new space age in which space is not just something that big countries do, but space is something that private citizens can do.
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