National Geographic UK - July 2019

ifty years ago this month, astronauts walked on the moon for the first time. Apollo 11’s success—just 66 years after the Wright ...

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ANIMALS WERE OUR FIRST SPACE TRAVELERS, CLEARING THE WAY FOR ASTRONAUTS WHO BECAME FAMOUS—AND FOR LESSER KNOWN HEROES. LEFT: Joh ...

uri Gagarin, Alan Shepard, John Glenn, Neil Armstrong—the first wave of space travelers— were military-trained astronauts though ...

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EARLY ROCKETEERS FIGURED THAT A MULTISTAGE LAUNCHER COULD PROPEL HUMANS TO THE MOON. THE SATURN V DID THAT—AND SET THE STAGE FOR ...

bespectacled, bearded Russian recluse fond of science fiction, Konstan- tin Tsiolkovsky believed human- ity’s destiny lay among ...

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A Soyuz spacecraft is towed to a launch- pad this past March at the Baikonur Cos- modrome. Developed by the Soviet Union in the ...

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