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  Space travel is a big human project that started more than 50 years ago during the “cold war” when the United States recognized the technical advances of their rival Soviet Union (now the Russian Federation). The program developed out of a military culture. The first people to enter space were military test pilots and those developing increasingly advanced aircraft and aerospace vehicles. The...

  The dramatic against-the-odds survival story of Apollo 13, which suffered an explosion and critical equipment failure on the first leg of its journey to the moon, is one of the most famous true space stories. Immortalized in pop songs and a blockbuster film, many people know the broad strokes of the story. However, the most amazing part of their adventure in space is...

  A spacesuit worn for high atmosphere travel or outer space visits, is more than a suit of clothing. In some cases it's an entire spaceship of its own. In the beginning of space technology, as far back as the 1930s when high altitude travel became possible for pilots, suits were needed to protect from the change of environment that high atmospheric travel requires....