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Operating Agency

This dimension names the agency that actually operated a given mission. Wikipedia notes that human spaceflight programs include "the Soyuz, Shenzhou, the past Apollo Moon landing and the Space Shuttle programs," each run by its own national agency. Browsing this way collects every mission flown by a single agency.

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Field Origin Era
1957 1
Operating Agency
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Sputnik 1
Wikimedia FoundationSputnik 1, lead section
Quote, Sputnik 1, lead section
It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957 as part of the Soviet space program.
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