50 EVENTS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD

Ancient Greece to 9/11 – history’s gamechangers revealed

20 JULY 1969 ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND The first Moon landing There was no way the United States was going to lose the Space Race. Although Soviet Russia seemed one step ahead at every turn, with Sputnik-1, Yuri Gagarin and Luna-2 – the first artificial satellite, the first man in space, and the first rocket to reach the Moon respectively – JFK told the American people on 25 May 1961 that the nation should “commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon, and returning him safely to the Earth.” Using Saturn rockets and veterans of Projects Mercury and Gemini, the process of developing a safe rocket that could make the journey and a safe return began. However, in 1967…

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