What percentage of the world's plant and animal species are found in the amazon rainforest?

50% it is 2% of earth's land and has 20% of the worlds fresh water

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