UNIVERSE
SPACE EXPLORATION
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Question
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first space station
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first space shuttle
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same time
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neither happened
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Detailed explanation-1: -The first rudimentary station was created in 1969 by the linking of two Russian Soyuz vehicles in space, followed by other stations and developments in space technology until construction began on the ISS in 1998, aided by the first reusable spacecraft ever developed: the American shuttles.
Detailed explanation-2: -On Oct. 4, 1957, the Soviets launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, into space. Four years later on April 12, 1961, Russian Lt. Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit Earth in Vostok 1.
Detailed explanation-3: -On April 19, 1971, the Soviet Union placed into orbit Salyut, the world’s first space station.
Detailed explanation-4: -Russia (then known as the Soviet Union) was the first to place a space station. The Salyut 1 station, which went into orbit in 1971, was actually a combination of the Almaz and Soyuz spacecraft systems.