Why is sleep important for the body? three sentences.

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Wow, there’s a lot of reasons for why sleep is so crucial to the body and mind but I’ll keep it short and sweet!

For one reason, sleep is the most stimulating source of energy and the most natural. Secondly, it’s vital for the brain to get up to at least eight hours of sleep for proper development. Lastly, functioning off of little to no sleep while doing daily life activities can be extremely harmful and dangerous, for example like driving, cooking, etc.

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