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User:Operator873/sandbox/Brazilian Space Agency
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The '''Brazilian Space Agency''' ({{lang-pt|Agência Espacial Brasileira}}; '''AEB''') is the [[Brazil]]ian [[agency]] for the country's growing [[Space exploration|space program]]. It runs a [[spaceport]] at Alcântara and a [[launch pad]] at Barreira do Inferno. The Brazilian Space Agency made Brazil a part of the [[International Space Station]] mission.<ref>http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/B/Brazilian_Space_Agency.html Brazilian Space Agency</ref>

==History==

The Brazil Space Program was created in 1961. The Brazilian military had full control of Brazil Space Program. Since the military controlled the program, [[research]] was badly slowed down. Some [[Technology|technological]] research was not allowed because other countries were worried about there being more [[nuclear bombs]]s and [[ICBM]]s put together.

Brazil launched it's first [[satellite]] that was made only in Brazil on February 9, 1993. The satellite was used to study space.

On February 10, 1994, The Brazilian Space Program became the Brazilian Space Agency when the Brazilian military stopped running the agency.

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==External links==
* [http://www.aeb.gov.br/ Official site in Portuguese]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20030827103414/http://www.mrree.gub.uy/iiicea/PAISES/Brasil/Brazilian%20Space%20Program98.htm An article on the agency]

[[Category:Space agencies]]