Space

A History of Space Travel History

It wasn't always the case that astronauts would frequently travel to space. This blog offers a quick overview of the development of human spaceflight history and speculates on possible future developments. Human imaginations have long been captured by the idea of space travel. Literature has long featured flight dreams, and writers like Jules Verne were writing about space travel as early as the middle of the 19th century. Science fiction found a larger audience with the invention of movies, and people's perception of humans visiting other planets solidified. The race to take humans into space began in the 1940s when rocket technology advanced, opening the door for such fantastical tales to become true. The Space Race Early on in the Space Race, the US and the USSR were vying with each other to be the first to accomplish important space exploration milestones. When seen through a modern lens, these competitive tendencies occasionally resulted