Space Race

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Space race. Space race describes the u s soviet space rivalry and its aftermath from the military origins of the space race through the race to the moon and the development of reconnaissance satellites to cooperative efforts to maintain a human presence in space. The end was the landing of america s apollo 11 spacecraft on the moon on july 20 1969. In 1955 with both the united states and the soviet union building ballistic missiles that could be. The origins of the space race can be traced to germany beginning in the 1930s and continuing.
It began with the launch of sputnik 1 the first artificial satellite by the soviet union on october 4 1957. The space race between the united states and the soviet union is usually considered to have lasted nearly 12 years. Space race heats up. The space race was a series of competitive technology demonstrations between the united states and the soviet union aiming to show superiority in spaceflight.
Men and chimps orbit earth in 1959 the soviet space program took another step forward with the launch of luna 2 the first space probe to hit the moon. Copy link the three men responsible for the success of explorer 1 america s first earth satellite which was launched january 31 1958. Our new space race is a planetary one our race to reliable sustainable energy. Who is in the space race now.
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