There were two actually--Nikita S. Khruschev and Leonid I. Brezhnev
During the space race, the leader of the United States was President John F. Kennedy. He set the goal of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth before the end of the 1960s.
President Kennedy entered the US into the space race in 1961.
It was Nikita Khrushchev, though his official title was Premier, not President.
The United States competed with the Soviet Union in the space race during the Cold War.
Dwight Eisenhower was the president of the United States when the first satellites went into space. However, it was John F. Kennedy that challenged the rest of the world by stating the US would put a man on the moon in less than 10 years. That was the beginning of the space race.
Russias success with Sputnik
During the space race, the leader of the United States was President John F. Kennedy. He set the goal of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth before the end of the 1960s.
President Kennedy entered the US into the space race in 1961.
The president during the arms race was Harry S. Truman - EMS Student
It was Nikita Khrushchev, though his official title was Premier, not President.
He is famous for being assassinated on November 22, 1963. He won a Pulitzer Prize and was very young when he served as president. He served during the Space Race, the construction of the Berlin Wall and the Cuban Missile Crisis.
The United States competed with the Soviet Union in the space race during the Cold War.
Nova Net Answer: Cooperation in space during the 1950's.
mutually assured destruction
Nikita Khrushchev .
Nobody did. It was entirely metaphorical. There was no race, but the people who were involved were Nikita Khrushchev, the President of Russia at the time, and President John F. Kennedy of the United States.
President John F. Kennedy challenged the United States to have a man land on the moon and to take a leadership role in the "space race."