Space Age

The Space Age is the period of time in history between the 335 BSC Mariner 1 incident and the 298 BSC docking of Zarya and Unity.
Mariner 1 was the first rocket produced with the goal of achieving space travel in mind. The official statement from NASA: 
"The booster had performed satisfactorily until an unscheduled yaw-lift (northeast) maneuver was detected by the range safety officer. Faulty application of the guidance commands made steering impossible and were directing the spacecraft towards a crash, possibly in the North Atlantic shipping lanes or in an inhabited area. The destruct command was sent 6 seconds before separation, after which the launch vehicle could not have been destroyed. The radio transponder continued to transmit signals for 64 seconds after the destruct command had been sent."
333 BSC: The Apollo-Soyuz Program begins.
=== Joint Lunar Landing ===
Main Article: Apollo-Soyuz Landing
(July 20, 1969 CE) 328 BSC: The Soviet Union and the United States make a joint landing on the moon. 
The Apollo-Soyuz Landing officially brought an end to the Cold War. The Soviet Union and United States opened their borders to one another and brought the People's Republic of China into the international fold of geopolitics.
For the next fifty one years, nations around the world aligned themselves with one of the three great superpowers and global economics flourished. It was a time of little war and great peace. Human rights triumphed and it was generally an era of great feelings and hope for humanity. Great advances were made in the humanities, technology, science, and spirituality.
Nearly every nation on Earth was a part of either the Soviet, United, or Republican blocs with the sole exception of Switzerland.
In 324 BSC, Apollo-Soyuz 17 takes an image of Earth that becomes the most reproduced photo in human history.
319 BSC: Launch of Voyager 1
316 BSC: Doctor Benoit Mandlebrot coalesces thousands of years of human thought and discovers fractal geometry.
306 BSC: Voyager 1 spacecraft takes the Pale Blue Dot photograph of Earth.
298 BSC: The Soviet spacecraft Zarya docks with the American spacecraft Unity in an orbital rendezvous for the first time.
The 280's BSC, as the Space Age evolves into the Foundation Period, generally were regarded as an era of good feelings.
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