Space Explorers 25 Extraordinary Stories Of Space Exploration And Adventure
Space Explorers 25 Extraordinary Stories Of Space Exploration And Adventure – Our first Earth orbiter was just two years old, taking off from the streets of Moscow a week before its historic launch. Her name was Laika. She was a terrier mix and a good dog in every way. His 1957 flight paved the way for space exploration when scientists did not know that spaceflight was fatal to living things.
Humans are explorers. Since the beginning of civilization, we have been lured to the horizon to find food or more space, to make a profit, or just to see what lies beyond those trees or mountains or oceans. Our ability to discover reached new heights – literally – in the last hundred years. Airplanes shortened distances, made travel easier, and showed us the Earth from a new perspective. In the middle of the last century, our aim was even higher.… Read the rest