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1) Started 2 years after the end of WW2
2) Missiles and nuclear bombs were a major part of this "war".
3) Tensions were so high between the USA and USSR that people were preparing for WW3 and nuclear fallout
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War
https://www.britannica.com/event/Cold-War -
1) Triggered The Space Race.
2) Sputnik in russian means "satellite" when referring to space.
3) First artificial satellite.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_1 -
Laika (LY-ka)
1) She was a stray
2) Her official owner was the Soviet Space Program
3) She died of hyperthermia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laika -
Yuri Gagarin
1) His middle name is Alekseyevich
2) He lived to 34
3) He became the first man to do an orbit around Earth on 12 April 1961
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Gagarin -
Apollo 11
1) Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon
2) 47.5 pounds of rock were collected during the mission
3) Launched from a Saturn V rocket
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11