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The first rockets launched into space from Sweden
Spaceflight or space flight is ballistic flight into or through outer space. Spaceflight can occur with spacecraft with or without humans on board. Yuri Gagarin of the Soviet Union was the first human to conduct a spaceflight. Examples of human spaceflight include the U.
About a dozen years from now, Martians might finally arrive on Earth. If they do, it will be because we brought them here. NASA and the European Space Agency are planning an audacious mission to gather samples of rock and soil from the surface of the red planet and transport them across 34 million miles of space—giving scientists an unprecedented opportunity to study what Mars is made of and to search for evidence that the planet once harbored life. Because past missions have revealed signs of Martian lakes and river deltas, the scientists believe they may find the fossils of microscopic organisms that thrived in those lakes and rivers before the planet became the frigid desert that it is today.
The principles of rocketry were first tested more than 2, years ago, but it's really only been in the past 70 years or so that these machines have been used for applications in space exploration. Today, rockets routinely take spacecraft to other planets in our solar system. Closer to Earth, rockets carrying supplies up to the International Space Station can return to Earth, land on their own and be used again. There are tales of rocket technology being used thousands of years ago.