{
  "id": 12429672,
  "title": "World Space Week 2026: Which countries have sent people to space?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/world-space-week-2026-which-countries-have-sent-people-to-space",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-06T17:05:12.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "People Daily Kenya",
    "slug": "people-daily-kenya",
    "url": "https://peopledaily.digital/news/world-space-week-2026-which-countries-have-sent-people-to-space"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}