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History of the space race

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  • The space race begins

    The space race begins

    The competition begins on August 2, 1955, when the Soviet Union responded to the US announcement of intent to launch artificial satellites "in the near future".
  • Period: to

    The space race

    The timespan in took the USSR and the U.S. to get a man on the moon and each other in space.
  • First satellite

    First satellite

    The Soviet Union beat the US to put a satellite in space with the orbiting of the Sputnik 1.
  • First man in space

    First man in space

    The USSR later also beat the U.S. at getting a man up in space with the launch of Yuri Gagarin's shuttle.
  • First men to reach the moon

    First men to reach the moon

    The Space Race ended with the US landing the first humans on the Moon with Apollo 11
  • U.S. and USSR agree to do a cooperative mission

    U.S. and USSR agree to do a cooperative mission

    The US and the USSR agree on a co-operative Apollo–Soyuz Test Project.
  • End of space race and Cold War

    End of space race and Cold War

    The U.S. astronaut and the soviet astronaut both reach an orbit of Earth and shake hands as a symbol of the end of the Cold War.