The Soviet Union sent the first space station into space in 1971.
前苏联于1971年将首个空间站送入了太空。
It wasn't until the late 1980s when The Soviet Union sent the Mir space station that people began to live in space for a longer time.
直到20世纪80年代末,也就是苏联发射和平号空间站的时期,人们才开始在太空中居住更长时间。
That is exactly why the U.S. wanted to do it, in order to one-up the Soviet Union, who were perceived as leading the space race at the time.
这正是为什么美国想要这样做的原因——为了领先苏联。 那时人们曾认为苏联处于太空竞争的领先地位。
But his flight gave Americans the feeling that the United States could pull ahead of the Soviet Union in the space race.
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So it died in space. A few months later, the Soviet Union put a one thousand three hundred sixty kilogram satellite into space.
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But before NASA could send an astronaut into space, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin of the Soviet Union became the first person to travel in space.
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