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This article discusses space travel. From the basketball sized satellite to the football field sized space ships.
It was in the days of cold war that the US decided to develop GPS. The launching of Sputnik by the Soviet Union motivated NASA for the development of this project to trace the movements of the satellite Sputnik which later started using for civilian purposes. In the present days the purposes of GPS ranges from path finding for drivers to gathering of information on climatic conditions.
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Laika (, literally meaning “Barker”) was a Soviet space dog (c. 1954–November 3, 1957) who became the first animal to orbit the Earth and the first orbital death. The technology to deorbit had not yet been developed, so there was ...
This article discusses space travel. From the basketball sized satellite to the football field sized space ships.
* 1957 – - Earth – Success – ”Sputnik 1” is launched, the first Earth orbiting satellite * 1957 – - Earth – Partial Success – Sputnik 2 is launched, the first Earth orbiting satellite with an animal (Laika) * ...
Soft landing capsule (NASA) ; Semi-manned or manned-spec unmanned spacecraft *Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV)—unmanned European cargo spacecraft *Buran manned-spec Soviet shuttle (one mission only) *H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV)—unmanned Japanese cargo spacecraft *Progress—unmanned USSR/Russia cargo spacecraft *TKS—manned-spec unmanned USSR cargo spacecraft ...
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