History

The space age began skyrocketing in 1957 after Sputnik, the Russian satellite was launched  and had earned the right to call it the first  working satellite. At Sputnik's awesome results Russia came out with new satellites and space stations with 2-3 Cosmonauts at one time.Those  include Vostok a space capsule ,Voskhod 2, Soyuz 19 which docked with Apollo   spacecraft, Salyut which was launched  with the young proton rockets, MIR which was launched  on February 20, 1986 . And now with the up-coming   international space station it will top off the millennium.


 

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