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... Today, Peter and I would like to present our research task on the Space Race. The Space Race, as many of you know, was a competition between two rival superpowers, the USA and the USSR, during the period in history known as the Cold War. The Space Race was an integral part in the Cold War, and helped determine present day history. ... But do you know who were the first man and woman to be launched into space? ...
Like the Arms Race during the Cold War, the United States of America (USA) and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR) were competing with each other. The Space Race, like all Cold War events, contained no direct conflict between the countries. ...
The Space Race occurred during 1957 to 1969. It was as I said before, a race between the world’s two superpowers, to prove which nation was more technologically advanced than the other. ... Space.
The Space Race unofficially commenced, on the 4ht of October, 1957, when the USSR launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik (meaning “fellow traveller” in English) into space. They launched it using an R-7 booster, and Sputnik was the first man-made satellite in space. ... They followed Sputnik, by launching another satellite into space, Sputnik II, but this time with a dog inside. This was to test whether animals could survive in space.
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