Carbon, an important element for life, keeps cycling between the spheres of the Earth. Carbon dioxide in the is absorbed by the oceans and is used by aquatic organisms for biological processes. But aquatic organisms return some of it back through
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The soviet union beat the us to the first successful launch, with the october 4, 1957, orbiting of sputnik 1, and later beat the us to have the first human in earth orbit, yuri gagarin, on april 12, 1961. the "race" peaked with the july 20, 1969, us landing of the first humans on the moon with apollo 11

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