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The first real settlement in Cocoa Beach, Florida was started by a family of newly freed slaves following the Civil War, but a hurricane in 1885 discouraged settlement.

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The IGY, they decided, would be celebrated in 1957. As part of the IGY, the Soviet Union vowed that it would launch an artificial satellite for space science.

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