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Space race

By eddief

  • competition

    competition
    Beginning in the late 1950s, space would become another dramatic arena for this competition, as each side sought to prove the superiority of its technology, its military firepower and–by extension–its political-economic system.

  • R-7

    R-7
    On October 4, 1957, a Soviet R-7 intercontinental ballistic missile launched Sputnik (Russian for “traveler”), the world’s first artificial satellite and the first man-made object to be placed into the Earth’s orbit.

  • Satellite

    Satellite
    In 1958, the U.S. launched its own satellite, Explorer I, designed by the U.S. Army under the direction of rocket scientist Wernher von Braun.

  • NASA

    NASA
    Eisenhower also created two national security-oriented space programs that would operate simultaneously with NASA’s program.