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→Subscribe for new videos every day! http://bit.ly/toptenzsubscribe →10 Reasons Bruce Lee was a Superhuman: http://bit.ly/1Hl4mVu Entertaining and educational top 10 lists from TopTenzNet! Brand new videos 7 days a week! Videos are published at 6pm EST every day! Other TopTenz Videos: Top 10 Reasons We Should Leave Earth and Explore the Unknown http://bit.ly/1GlSH7f We all know that Neil Armstrong was the first man on the Moon. And we’ve all seen the Stars and Stripes embedded into the surface, a declaration that the United States was the victor of the Space Race. But surely it was about far more than simply conquering the Moon’s surface? Text version: http://www.toptenz.net/10-soviet-victories-in-the-space-race.php Coming up: 10. First Satellite 9. First Animal in Orbit 8. First Images of the Dark Side of the Moon 7. First Animals Returned From Space 6. First Human in Outer Space 5. First Woman in Space 4. First Spacewalk 3. First Space Station 2. First Probe to Land On Mars 1. First Permanently Manned Space Station Source/Other reading: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/elements/baikonur.html http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1957-001B http://www.livescience.com/26664-animals-in-space-monkeys-dogs.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2367681.stm http://englishrussia.com/2012/02/04/the-soviet-luna-9-spacecraft/ http://www.space.com/17764-laika-first-animals-in-space.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24837199 http://rbth.co.uk/science_and_tech/2014/04/12/laying_the_groundwork_for_gagarin_the_ussrs_space_research_p_35861.html http://rt.com/news/gagarin-first-man-space-anniversary-662/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/6/newsid_2944000/2944638.stm http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/587896/Valentina-Tereshkova https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1bTCYR4Mz2cC&pg=PA149&lpg=PA149&dq=What+struck+me+most+was+the+silence.+It+was+a+great+silence,+unlike+any+I+have+encountered+on+Earth,+so+vast+and+deep+that+I+began+to+hear+my+own+body&source=bl&ots=r3Uj5GI7_o&sig=1ThX4TZF8cm8lTc8Mx2nYoI4p00&hl=en&sa=X&ei=juHlVO_1PMHP7QavvoGQDw&ved=0CDoQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=What%20struck%20me%20most%20was%20the%20silence.%20It%20was%20a%20great%20silence%2C%20unlike%20any%20I%20have%20encountered%20on%20Earth%2C%20so%20vast%20and%20deep%20that%20I%20began%20to%20hear%20my%20own%20body&f=false http://www.space.com/16773-first-space-station-salyut-1.html http://hereisthecity.com/en-gb/2014/11/03/five-of-the-worst-space-travel-disasters-in-history/ http://mars.nasa.gov/mer/home/ http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/MRO/news/mro2013411.html#.VOXiqrCsWVU http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4225/mir/mir.htm