BBCNEWS The New Space Race June 4, 2024 14:34:00
It was a huge moment, of course. yuri gagarin became the most known person on the planet almost instantly when he completed that flight, when he returned safely down to earth, especially since the us was actually very close to launching their own first human into space just shortly afterwards. so there was a bit of a race, for sure. it was a huge moment in the sense that it was a tremendous achievement that had barely been dreamed about just years beforehand. obviously, we saw the launch of sputnik, the first artificial satellite into space in 1957. so only four years after, there was a tremen...