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Russians celebrate Sputnik Day in style
President voices ‘rightful pride’ over space-age role, while veterans marvel at their revolution

Lessons from the Sputnik generation
Fifty years after the space age began, having the Right Stuff means asking the right questions

Cosmic Log: Your Sputnik memories
Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: Read up on reminiscences of the space age, then add your own

Spaceflight technology's next 50 years
The biggest challenge is to make a simpler and safer propulsion system for interplanetary travel

Sputnik's place in space history

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	A century of flight: The Wright brothers & beyond
	The Apollo moon landing Mission control, and the world, were gripped with fear
	The Columbia tragedy
	Return to flight

Challenger remembered

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Highlights of human space flight
NBC News' Brian Williams reports on the greatest moments of the space race.

NBC News Web Extra

Slide show

Sputnik scenes
Fifty years after Sputnik’s rise, historical photos reveal the machines and the people behind the birth of the space age.

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Shuttle history
Trace every flight of America's space fleet

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Highs and lows
Revisit the achievements and tragedies of America's human spaceflight effort.

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Special Report

Greatest hits of the cosmos

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NASA's glory days
Space timeline of the 1960s and 1970s

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Space bloopers
Test your knowledge of the space effort's trivial troubles.