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the u.s. and the u.s.s.r (Russia) were in this thing called the space race. so far, the u.s. was losing. If the u.s.s.r. got to the moon first, it would put the u.s. to shame.

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Where was laika found?

Laika was found as a stray on the streets of Moscow, Russia before being selected for the Soviet space program. She was chosen to be the first living being to orbit the Earth aboard Sputnik 2 in 1957.


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The first American space station was Skylab (sometimes referred to as Skylab 1) which was made from an empty and converted Saturn V rocket case. It was launched in May 1973, and re-entered Earth's atmosphere when its orbit decayed in July 1979, long after the last crew had departed.The only other one the US has participated in is the ISS (International Space Station) which was built by the joint effort of America, Russia, China, Korea, Japan and many other countries


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Mark Shuttleworth trained at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, before he went to space as a spaceflight participant on the Soyuz TM-34 mission to the International Space Station in 2002.

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