# @worldscifest on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/8UEMLpk9uV
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/2461383-worldscifest-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/f7f50578cd.jpg
- **Posted:** 2015-10-01T23:32:06.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** WorldScienceFestival (@WorldSciFest) — https://gondola.cc/WorldSciFest

## Caption

Happy birthday, @NASA! To mark the 57th year since the #space agency’s official start, here’s a photo of #NASA #astronaut Donald K. "Deke" Slayton (right) and #Russian #cosmonaut Alexey Leonov, an unlikely space #mission duo on the surface. But #Russia was, of course, a driving force behind the formation of NASA. It was the orbit around the #Earth by the Russian #satellite #Sputnik in 1957 that sparked the #SpaceRace, engaging the United States and the then-Soviet Union in fierce competition for global supremacy in space #technology. But it was a rivalry that eventually dwindled, and in July 1975 NASA astronauts were launched into space to meet Russian cosmonauts in orbit to show that two dissimilar #spacecraft could join up.
#photooftheday #science #cosmos #spaceexploration #history #sciencehistory
📷: NASA

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history, mission, russian, earth, nasa, photooftheday, space, sputnik, spaceexploration, spacerace, cosmonaut, cosmos, satellite, science, sciencehistory, russia, spacecraft, astronaut, technology

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