Listen To Neil Armstrong On The Moon

People dreamed of space flight for a millennia before it became reality. Evidence of the dream exists in myth and fiction as far back as Babylonian texts of 4000 B.C.. In 1865, Jules Verne depicted space travel in his popular novel A Trip to the Moon.

The dream of flight into space continued unabated into the 20th century, notably in the works of the British writer H. G. Wells, who published The War of the Worlds in 1898 and The First Men on the Moon in 1901. More recently, fantasies of space flight have been nourished by science fiction.

The long history of myths, dreams, fiction, science, and technology culminated in the dramatic launching of the first artificial orbiting earth satellite, Sputnik 1, by the USSR on October 4, 1957.

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