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Bookmark or Share- The Space Race: Timeline, Cold War & Facts | HISTORYThe Space Race refers to the period of competition over space exploration between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. during the Cold War.
- Space Race - WikipediaThe Space Race was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the United States and the Soviet Union, to achieve superior spaceflight capability. It had its origins in the ballistic missile -based nuclear arms race between the two nations following World War II and had its peak with the more particular Moon Race to land on the Moon ...
- What Was the Space Race? | National Air and Space MuseumThe Space Race became a race to the Moon. Both countries made announcements to launch the first artificial satellite into space, but it was the Soviet Union that brought humanity into the Space Age with their Sputnik satellite, which was successfully launched on October 4, 1957.
- Space Race | SpaceNext50 | Encyclopedia BritannicaThe space race started with simple satellites and then continued with human spaceflight and then culminated in the Moon landings. Apollo 8 astronaut Frank Borman later said that there were three main battles of the Cold War: Vietnam, Afghanistan, and the race to the Moon.
- The Space Race | National Air and Space MuseumWhat exactly was the Space Race? Why did we care so much? The Space Race grew out of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, the most powerful countries after World War II. For a half-century, the two superpowers competed for supremacy in a global struggle across a variety of areas from military might to consumer goods.
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