To commemorate Sputnik’s first flight fifty years ago today (4th October 2007), Flightglobal.com has put together a set of fifty space; 25 highlighting significant breakthroughs and innovations of the last 50 years of space travel, the other 25 offering an insight into what the future of space travel may hold.

Below is a listing of the images, alternatively you can look at a slideshow of the iconic images.

 

50 Space Images

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Source: FlightGlobal.com

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