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The Right Stuff: How NASA’s First Pilots Turned the Space Race into Legend View of the Full Mir Space Station Over Earth In the late 1950s, the United States faced a new kind of battlefield. The Cold War had expanded beyond land, sea, and air—now it reached into the sky. When the Soviet Union launched the world’s first satellite in 1957, it sent shockwaves through Washington and across the American public. The response was swift. In 1958, the United States established the Nat