Since the inception of space exploration with Neil Armstrong’s venture to the Moon on July 20 th 1969 followed by the first ever space shuttle Columbia launched on April 12 th 1981, mankind has always been inquisitive about learning about the outer world. Over the last few decades, with the astounding developments in technology, there have been multiple attempts to build rockets and space shuttles to traverse to the space. One of the first successes came on Nov 20 th 1998 that marks the birth of International Space Station – the first module of which, called Zarya, was taken to the space by a Russian rocket. Though there have been occasional failures with the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster on Jan 28 th 1986 and the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster on Feb 1 st 2003, the proportion of success has been overwhelming – so much so that we are currently looking at commercialization of space flights – i.e. anyone can take a flight to space just like we fly on the Earth from one locat...
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