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World Space Week 2026: Which countries have sent people to space?

Sixty-nine years ago this day, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first satellite to orbit Earth, opening the Space Age and setting off a race with the United States. Ten years later, on October 10, 1967, the Outer Space Treaty came into force. In 1999, the United Nations started observing World Space Week – […]

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