Lance Armstrong landed on the moon and we won the space race.
the space race started when the soviet union union launched Sputnik into space.
a major event in the cold war was the space race
The Space Race officially began with the Soviet Union's Sputnik 1 on October 4th, 1957. The Sputnik 1 was the first Earth Orbiting Artificial Satellite to be launched which caused great shock to the United States. The United States believed themselves to be the leader in Space Technology and were therefore surprised by the launch of the Sputnik Program except for the CIA and President Eisenhower, who were aware of this thanks to spy plane imagery. I can not find when the Space Race ended
The space race was when the us and the ussr tried to get the newest equipment into space. It happened between 1957 and 1975.
The launch of Sputnik by USSR
The successful launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik was the event that set off the space race during the Cold War era. The US did not want to fall behind the Soviet Union.
The galactic aliens from utopia. They got in a ight and bet who could race across space the fastest. Not a very bright race seeing how space expands for ever.
When Niel Armstrong landed on the moon.
When Russia sent his fist manned mission into space, that marked the beginning of the space race between US and Russia.
The Sydney to Hobart Yaght race.
That was the year the space race to get an American to the moon began
Launching of Sputnik
The space shuttle program began in 1969. It was started in the race that contributed to the rocket race to the moon and a tactic to claim superiority to the USSR.
It marked the start of the space race between the U.S. and U.S.S.R.
For fear of nuclear attacks, initially, space exploration was the best analog, or excuse, to test nuclear ICBM and SRBM delivery technologies. Later it became more of a chest thumping display of national pride and economic supremacy.
the apollo 11 moon landing