Yes. The Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first satellite, on October the 4th 1957. The first US satellite was launched on January 31st 1958, and was called Explorer I.
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what happened is that they both lost and mexico beat them in rocketry
took over most of the land around him. tried to control the soviet union but got beat.
I don't really know, but it probably motivated the US to work harder and faster to beat Soviet Russia.
The 1980 United States Hockey Team accomplished one of the greatest upsets in the history of sports. A group of college players who hadn't played together before the Olympics took on a professional team from the Soviet Union and defeated them to win the gold medal.
Because the United States wanted to beat the Soviet Union in the "space race."
to try to beat the soviet union in the space race when john f. Kennedy declared it.
The fact that the Soviet Union had moved ahead of the United States in terms of their Space Program made President Kennedy believe the country had to step up and beat them. National resources to NASA and the space program were immediately allocated.
The Space Race was run against the Soviet Union.
Yuri's flight was 108 minutes long he was the first person in space he beat the Americans in the space race between the soviet union and the u.s.a.
created so that the soviet union can beat the usa in the race to be the first country to launch a satellite into space.
Soviet union (Russia)
The United States Space program established by JFK to "put a man on the moon by the end of the decade" and beat the Soviet Union. The agency tasked with space esploration is NASA, the North American Space Administration.
The Soviet Union, both with a satellite and with a human. In 1957, the Soviet Union successfully launched into Earth orbit the first artificial (man-made) satellite called Sputnik. I caused a shock around the world, and raised questions in the US as to how they beat us into space. 4 years later, Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space after the Soviet Union launched his spacecraft into orbit with a Vostok launch vehicle. It caused an even bigger shock around the world than Sputnik did.
The space race did not take place in a single month. The space race was a period that lasted for nearly 20 years from the mid 1950s until the early 1970s when the United States and Soviet Union were trying to beat one another to various acheivements in space exploration.
To show to the world that the United States could beat the Soviet Union in a contest of technology and will. The USSR had recently impressed the world with its space achievements. In the context of the Cold War, President Kennedy looked for a space spectacular that the US could achieve first, despite the current Soviet lead.
The Soviet Union, 2-1.