The united states launched the space race after Sputnik was launched by the Soviets. President Dwight Eisenhower was the one to take the initiative to have kids get a good education to start the program of NASA created in the late 50s.
The first man in space was the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, who made a single orbit of the Earth on April 12, 1961.
The first US astronaut into space was Alan Shepard, who made a suborbital flight on May 5, 1961. This was followed by another suborbital flight by Gus Grissom, and by a three-orbit flight by John Glenn on February 20, 1962. The US astronauts were part of NASA's Project Mercury.
It started in 1961, though technically that was a "cosmonaut", the Russian term.
12 April 1961 Major Yuri Gagarin was the first man into space
July 20th 1996 was when the first MAN on the moon ,Neil Armstrong .
Russia has never left the surface yet, but
has sent a lot of its hardware into orbit.
The first success was in 1957.
Early 1959. The Russians launched sputnik
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space race
Hard to say, there have been so many. Sputnik was the first, and led to the space race between the USA and Russa.
The Russians started the Space Race by launching Sputnik the first satellite, which then provoked fear in the Americans to begin development of their own satellites.
The Russians and the Americans.
During the Cold War, the Americans hated the crap out of the Russians. The Americans wanted to beat the Russians in something to show dominance, and then they had the Space Race.
The space race took place in the mid 60's, and was America, verses the russians, to be the first to get to the moon.
That would be the Russians
The Soviet Union The Space Race The Cold War
Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite.
The space race
to beat the russians and or CCCP/USSR in the space race to prove america
Many people believe that the americans won it but that is not true. The US. was first to land on the moon but the russians were the first in space.
The space race
1957