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1944 Bretton Woods Meeting
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Space Race to the moon
"Space Race Heats Up. In 1959, the Soviet space program took another step forward with the launch of Luna 2, the first space satellite to hit the moon. In April 1961, the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person to orbit Earth, traveling in the capsule-like spacecraft Vostok 1."
