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  Home » Technology & science » Space » Space History
Top 10 revelations
of the Space Age
In the 50 years since Sputnik's launch, the "traveling companion's" legacy has been far-reaching. Take a look at the effects Sputnik has had on science. • FULL STORY
NASA
•Russians celebrate Sputnik Day in style
President voices ‘rightful pride’ over space-age role, while veterans marvel at their revolution
•Lessons from the Sputnik generation
Fifty years after the space age began, having the Right Stuff means asking the right questions
•Cosmic Log: Your Sputnik memories
Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: Read up on reminiscences of the space age, then add your own
•Spaceflight technology's next 50 years
The biggest challenge is to make a simpler and safer propulsion system for interplanetary travel
Sputnik's place in space history
•Space-age secrets revealed 50 years later
•Sputnik witnesses saw failure, then success
•Video timeline: Replaying the space race
•Video: ‘Rocket Boy’ reflects on Sputnik’s effect
•Sputnik launched 50 years of scientific progress
•Sputnik started a satellite revolution
•Don’t believe all the Sputnik hype
 MORE SPACE HISTORY
 •A century of flight: The Wright brothers & beyond

 
APOLLO 11 MOON LANDING •The Apollo moon landing
Mission control, and the world, were gripped with fear
 
 •The Columbia tragedy

 
 •Return to flight

 
 Challenger remembered 
 
•How the disaster unfolded
•7 myths about the Challenger disaster
•Astronaut-teacher's legacy celebrated
•Tragedies influence future space vision
Web extra video
•Highlights of human space flight
NBC News' Brian Williams reports on the greatest moments of the space race.

NBC News Web Extra

Slide show
•Sputnik scenes
Fifty years after Sputnik’s rise, historical photos reveal the machines and the people behind the birth of the space age.

more photos

INTERACTIVE
•Shuttle history
Trace every flight of America's space fleet
Slide show
•Highs and lows
Revisit the achievements and tragedies of America's human spaceflight effort.

more photos

 Special Report
•Greatest hits of the cosmos
INTERACTIVE
•NASA's glory days
Space timeline of the 1960s and 1970s
INTERACTIVE
•Space bloopers
Test your knowledge of the space effort's trivial troubles.
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