"The Space Race was a mid-to-late 20th century competition between the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US) for supremacy in space exploration. Between 1957 and 1975, Cold War rivalry between the two nations focused on attaining firsts in space exploration, which were seen as necessary for national security and symbolic of technological and ideological superiority. The Space Race involved pioneering efforts to launch artificial satellites, sub-orbital and orbital human spaceflight around the Earth, and piloted voyages to the Moon. It effectively began with the Soviet launch of the Sputnik 1 artificial satellite on 4 October 1957, and concluded with the co-operative Apollo-Soyuz Test Project human spaceflight mission in July 1975. The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project came to symbolize détente, a partial easing of strained relations between the USSR and the US.
The Space Race had its origins in the missile-based arms race that occurred just after the end of the World War II, when both the Soviet Union and the United States captured advanced German rocket technology and personnel."
thanks wikipedia! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Race
We launched the first artificial satellite. Our launch of Sputnik effectively proves that we won the space race. We still don't know why everyone thinks there was such a huge battle between us and the United States... regardless of what America put up into space after we launched Sputnik, we still won. We had the first operating satellite in space. After that, the U.S. just copied us and tried to one-up us on technology like they always do. They can't ever just come up with their own ideas. When we took the German's technology, so did America. They can't even be original about the ideas they steal...
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