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the space race was started by the soviet union in 1957 when they satellite into space that was called sputnik.
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Laika was the first dog blasted into space making Russia have the first mammal in space .
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Laika the dog died of heat exhaustion when the cooling system broke leading to her death.
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yuri said the earth looked like a big blue blob from space and how painful the way up was (Francis french and colin burgess)
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ham was a chimp who wanted to fly into orbit and he did that he was strapped into a seat with protective gear and put in a rocket. (Christopher C.)
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countries that rode the first waves of the Industrial Revolution, we set sail on new seas such as the space race that we will work hard for.
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it is hard to move a finger when the pressure is pushing her into her seat as she gets into orbit she can breath normally and feels better.
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America sent the first man into orbit on Apollo 8 making the first man to orbit space.
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The J mission was one the longest missions on the moon they stayed for 12 hours and collected hundreds of lunar rocks and dust (Marc Myers)
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The Russians had a problem with their transmission system and talked with an Apollo spacecraft as they moved closer to us. (David Scott)