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Eintrag vom: 16.06.2013.

The Space Race in the 1960s was a key moment in the Cold War but what happened in the race between America and the USSR to conquer space and who won?

 

A less belligerent but no less competitive part of the Cold War was the space race. The Soviet Union bested its rival at nearly every turn until the U.S. beat them to the finish line by landing astronauts on the moon.

 

The space race was a series of competitive technology demonstrations between the United States and the Soviet Union aiming to show superiority in spaceflight.

 

This infographic presents a timeline of space-related achievements by the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. between 1957 and 1969. A description of the timeline is below the graphic.

 

Learn about the events that led to the creation of the Apollo Program. Space exploration served as another dramatic arena for Cold War competition.

 

The Space Race (Russian: ??????????? ????? romanized: kosmicheskaya gonka IPA: [k?s?m?it??sk?j? ??onk?]) was a 20th-century competition between the Cold War rivals the United States and the Soviet Union to achieve superior spaceflight capability.