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29. Conquest of Space














Table of Contents | 1. Earth | 2. The Origin of Life and Evolution of Man | 3. Civilisation | 4. Fertile Crescent | 5. Egypt | 6. Indus Valley | 7. Yellow River (Haung He/Huang Ho) | 8. Hittites, Canaanites, Phoenicians, Assyrians | 9. New World (B. C./Pre-Columban) | 10. Greeks and Persians | 11. Rome ( - B. C. - A. D. 96) | 12. The Messiah/Christus, Jesus, James, Simon/Peter, Saul/Paul | 13. Rome ( - A. D. 275) | 14. Rome and Byzantium (Nova Roma) | 15. Islam | 16. Charlemagne | 17. Vikings | 18. Turks, Crusaders, Mongols, Moors, Explorers and Conquistadors | 19. Reformation, Enlightenment (1300s -1700s) | 20. Mid-1700s - early 1900s | 21. The Great War | 22. Inter-War Years | 23. The War in Europe and Africa | 24. Second World War | 25. War in the Pacific | 26. Defeating the Axis in Europe and Africa | 27. End of Japanese Imperialism | 28. Ending the War | 29. Conquest of Space | 30. Averting Nuclear War | 31. End of Empire | 32. Man on the Moon | 33. Arms Race and Limitation | 34. Lifting the Iron Curtain | 35. The 21st Century | 36. Outer Space | 37. | 42.




















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SPUTNIK

First satellite in space

1957

Movietone News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ic9bVEzoqk


 
 
 
 

Soviet premiere Nikita Khrushchev (centre) with Gherman Titov (left) and Yuri Gagarin (right) in Moscow's Red Square on 20 November 1961

 

 

 


Yuri Gagarin

The first man in space

1961

Steven Rosenberg, BBC News

2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KANuFlelQ5k





Monument to the Conquest of Space

The Titanium Rocket

Erected in 1964

Moscow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtpsGHboMCI

















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