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Although the ‘Space Age’ had begun with the Soviet Union’s launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957, the story of rockets and man’s attempts to leave the surface of the Earth goes back another 40–50 years. In the opening years of the 20th Century, scientists and academics were taking the possibilities of rocket propulsion, and transportation outside the Earth’s atmosphere, seriously for the first time.
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Bains, G., Forrester, C. (2011). 10 Countdown to Launch. In: Forrester, C. (eds) High Above. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12009-1_10
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