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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". -
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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
The Soviet Union beat the US to put a satellite in space with the orbiting of the Sputnik 1. -
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
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
The US and the USSR agree on a co-operative Apollo–Soyuz Test Project. -
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.
