SPACE CASE- INTRODUCTION
🌌 Our Journey Through the Stars: From Sputnik to Mars and Beyond When we look at the night sky, it feels endless—like a book with infinite pages. For centuries, humans only dreamed of what was written there. But in the last seven decades, we’ve actually started turning those pages. This is the story of how humanity—America, Russia, India, and many others—has stepped beyond Earth to explore the cosmos. 🚀 Part 1: The Dawn of the Space Age (1950s – 1970s) It all began in 1957, when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1 . That small beeping sphere shocked the world—it was the first time something built by humans had orbited Earth. Just four years later, Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space. His smile from orbit was a symbol of human courage and possibility. Not to be outdone, the United States answered with the Apollo 11 mission in 1969, when Neil Armstrong placed humanity’s first footprint on the Moon. In the 1970s, robotic missions like Voyager and Mariner ventured out...
