Space Age

The Space Age is a contemporary period encompassing the activities related to the space race, space exploration, space technology, and the cultural developments influenced by these events.

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The Space Age began on October 4, 1957 with the launch of Sputnik 1 by the Soviet Union. The Soviet success heralded a space race against Americans.

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Since then participation in space launches have increasingly widened to more governments and commercial interests.

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In the early 21st century, the Ansari X Prize competition has been set up to help jump start commercial space exploration.

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Space race: The Space Race, an informal competition between the United States and the Soviet Union, lasted roughly from 1957 to 1975. It involved the parallel efforts by each of those countries to explore outer space with artificial satellites, to send humans into space, and to land people on the moon....

Space exploration: Space exploration is the physical exploration of outer-Earth objects and generally anything that involves the technologies, science, and politics regarding space endeavors....

October 4: October 4 is the 277th day of the year (278th in Leap years). There are 88 days remaining....

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