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Laika, the first living creature to orbit the earth
03/11/1957
Laika, a little Russian dog was the first living creature to orbit the earth, in Sputnik 2 in 1957. She did not survive the flight.
Victims of the conquest of space
27/01/1967
The Apollo programme, which was intended to put men on the Moon, started tragically. Three astronauts died, asphyxiated in their Apollo 1 capsule during an exercise on the ground.
Salyut 1, the Soviets set up apartments in space
19/04/1971
While the race for the moon was at its peak, the Russians decided in 1964 to concentrate their efforts on developing a space station, the first step to living in space. Due to the foresight of this decision, the Soviets became the first to launch Salyut 1, the first manned space station, several months before the Americans with Skylab.
Goodbye to the Moon
1972
The Apollo programme ended quietly in December 1972 for lack of funds. But if men said goodbye to the Moon for several decades, they left various personal souvenirs of their passing, apart from moon Jeeps, modules and parts of the probes.
Apollo-Soyuz, the American-Soviet handshake in space
17/07/1975
Astronaut Thomas Stafford and cosmonaut Alexis Leonov met when the American spaceship Apollo and the Soviet Soyuz rendezvous in space. This meeting marked the first joint space enterprise between the USSR and the USA, a diplomatic and a technical achievement!
