Cold War And Space Race

The space race was a 20th century competition between two cold war rivals the soviet union ussr and the united states us to achieve firsts in spaceflight capability.
Cold war and space race. Neither superpower were clear winners of the space race but many of the technological discoveries and developments have benefited mankind is a whole. Major episodes in the space race include the launch of the first artificial earth satellite sputnik 1 in october 1957 and the launch of first human into space yuri gagarin on 12 april 1961 by the soviet union. This ongoing rivalry became known as the space race. The space race was a cold war competition between the united states and the soviet union to develop aerospace capabilities including artificial satellites unmanned space probes and human spaceflight.
It had its origins in the ballistic missile based nuclear arms race between the two nations following world war ii. Between the mid 1950s to 1975 the united states and the soviet union strived to outdo each other in rocket technology and space exploration.