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The Soviet Union led the space race

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In 1903, Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky wrote “Exploration of the World Space with Reaction Machines” – which contained an accurate description of weightlessness and equations predicting how rockets would travel in the vacuum of space.

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