On June 16, 1963, Valentina Nikolayeva Tereshkova became the first woman to travel into space. Tereshkova, a cosmonaut with then-Soviet Russia, launched into space on the Vostok 6 mission and orbited Earth 48 times in 70.8 hours. That’s nearly three days alone in space The goal of Vostok 6 was to better understand the female […]
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The Angola ICT Forum ANGOTIC is a global forum and integrated exhibition platform dedicated to accelerating the digital transformation of Angola and Africa. It aims to foster the creation of a Digital Single Market and to promote collaboration across the international technology community. Each year, it attracts thousands of technology experts and business leaders from
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On June 15, 2011, Iran launched the Rasad-1 satellite into orbit around Earth. Rasad-1 (the name means Observation-1 in Farsi) is an imaging satellite that was sent into a 162-mile orbit by an Iranian Safir rocket. Rasad-1 made about 15 orbits per day, and sent back pictures to Earth. This was Iran’s third satellite and
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