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Lucky for us, the Space Age coincided with the Television Age.
The space race between the United States and the USSR was only partially about the pursuit of knowledge. It was also a realm to fight the Cold War, a theater of scientific and technological superiority. And the two nations took full advantage of the sublime visual appeal of their missions to promote their agendas to the world.
From the telegenic chimps that paved the way for human space travel to the rumble of the Delta II, these moving images chart a few of the major milestones in the competition to reach the Moon and colonize low-Earth orbit.
1957: Sputnik 1 Becomes First Artificial Satellite to Orbit EarthThe Space Age dawned a little sooner than expected with the successful launch of Sputnik 1 by the Soviet Union.
With Sputnik 1's successful deployment, the political, military and technological relationship between the Soviet Union and United States changed dramatically. The Americans immediately abandoned their Vanguard satellite project, because its intended payload was eclipsed by Sputnik’s, and started anew with Explorer.
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