Conquest of space
Humans started to realize their ambitions in space back in 1961, when Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin
became the first human to go around the Earth on an adventure that lasted 108 minutes. He was followed by others, among them his countrywoman Valentina Tereshkova [1963], who became the first woman to fly to outer space on the Vostok 6; and US astronauts like Michael Collins, Edwin Aldrich,and Neil Armstrong [1969], who succeeded in stepping on the surface of the Moon, still the biggest achievement of the space race.
After that, the pace slowed, and it was not until 1986 that a new important event would occur: the launch into space of the Mir space station, which was visited by more than 100 astronauts up to 2001. After Mir, came the Intemational Space Station [ISS], which went into space in 1998. A total of 16 countries took part in its construction.
There have also been more than 300 space missions without people. Among the most famous are the
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