it is by the Soviet Union that the Space Age is officially launched only ten years later in what is now Kazakhstan. The “Sputnik” shock In October 1957 ... Finnish Museum of Photography Juri Gagarin in a press conference in Finland. Ten months later, on 20 February 1962, the United States manages to catch up with ... weeks in space In 1965 and 1966, the United States carries out a total of ten space flights under the “Gemini” programme, during which the techniques which