Well, that we could fly into outer space. Beyond that I don't know what you mean.
Jet planes were invented by the Nazis before the first space flights, so the space race didn't spawn those.
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A Redstone rocket launched Alan Shepard's Mercury capsule into space on May 5, 1961. His flight lasted15 minutes 22 seconds. He reached an altitude of 116.5 miles.
Huntsville Alabama is the home of Redstone Arsenal (the US Army missile and rocket center), NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, and the US Space and Rocket Center.
The father of space flight is a name given to Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, who was a Soviet rocket scientist. His specialty was astronautic theory.
The first country to launch the first successful manned space flight was Russia. Yuri Gagarin was the first person in space as a result of that achievement.
The first "rocket" successfully launched into space was actually a V-2 missile. The first rocket-ship that was successfully launched into space used rocket engines. A rocket engine pushes the rocket forward by expelling its exhaust in the opposite direction at a high speed.
The first unmanned rocket to fly in space was the Russian Sputnik.
In 1969, the first rocket went to the moon. The name of the rocket that propelled them into space was the Saturn V rocket.
It was a German rocket in 1944.
Lost in Space - 1965 Flight Into the Future - 3.8 was released on: USA: 25 October 1967
The last space rocket launch, as of 24th June 2013, was on 11th June 2013. The Chinese rocket was a manned mission to the Tiangong 1 laboratory module. This was China's fifth manned space flight.
The first manned rocket was launched in 1961