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The visionary behind the European Space Agency
In October 2012, a visionary letter about the European Space Agency was sent into space
The historic handshake in space
In July 1975, Russian cosmonauts and American astronauts met in space and shook hands
In event of moon disaster: 'The speech that never was'
Richard Nixon's contingency speech in case the moon landing astronauts never made it home
First spacewalk
On 18 March 1965, cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person to spacewalk
The rocket that revived Brazil鈥檚 space programme
On 23 October 2004, Brazil launched its first rocket following a devastating accident
Bardo Museum attack in Tunisia
In March 2015, 22 people were killed when two gunmen stormed the building
The Gambia鈥檚 鈥楺ueen of Recycling鈥�
In 1997, a Gambian woman started an environmental initiative
The Capitol Crawl
On 12 March 1990, hundreds of wheelchair users crawled up the steps of the US Capitol
King Kong: South Africa's first all-black musical
South Africa鈥檚 first musical with an all-black cast opened to critical acclaim in 1959
The invention of GPS
The Global Positioning System, also known as GPS, was created in the late 1970s
