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V-2 Missiles were created to destroy cities like London.
They are enough powerful to overcome the force of gravity to reach orbital velocities -
They launched the Sputnik 1 into space (fisrt artifical satellite) -
It's the first US satellite that was in orbit
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Alan Shepard became the first American to fly into space
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Yuri Gagarin is the first human to orbit Earth (Vostok 1)
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He is the first American to orbit Earth
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He was the first human to step on the moon
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They were used in the everyday life
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These satellites has also been used to take photos of Jupiter and Saturn -
They are really widespread and used both to explore the Earth and to explore the rest of the space for example satellites discovered a ozone hole over Antarctica.
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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics were divisioned and the Cold war ended -
The International Space Station is used by many countries around the world
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Benefits...
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That's what was supposed to happen, at least !