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Loading contentHow humanity reached space and explored the Solar System — the eras, the milestone firsts, and the records, from Sputnik to Artemis. Built on real dated events; nothing is fabricated.
The Cold-War contest between the Soviet Union and the United States that carried the first humans into orbit and on to the Moon, culminating in the Apollo landings and the détente of Apollo–Soyuz.
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk on the Moon while Michael Collins orbits above — the first humans to set foot on another world.
Yuri Gagarin was the first person to travel into space and orbit the Earth, aboard Vostok 1.
Voyager 1 is the most distant human-made object from Earth, over 24 billion kilometres away and still receding, having crossed into interstellar space in 2012.