The death of Neil Armstrong, the first man who stepped on to the moon can be termed as an end of an era for the various international space agencies competing to be ahead of each other in space technology. It all started with a space race in mid-to-late 20th century between the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US) for supremacy in space exploration. The space race involved continuous efforts to launch satellites, sub-orbital, and orbital human spaceflight around the Earth, and to the Moon. Everyone talked about the supremacy of NASA for launching the first successful crewed flight of landing on the Moon but not much has been published about the kind of technology which was used during that time to carry such a historic mission.
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