​For centuries humans have dreamed of conquering space and for centuries so it has remained, just a dream.

But in the twentieth century the phenomenal growth of science and technology created a great opportunity to make these dreams come true and they did come true, the beginning was in the steppes of Kazakhstan

when a train from the industrial revolution pushed it successor to its launch pad, a new revolution began

the torch had been passed on.

In the future people will look back on this day as the beginning of a new Era.

The day mankind learned how to leave the Earth, October the 4th 1957

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