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the super super powers of the cold war
the cold war, a war between the worlds super powers united states and soviet union. a brutal race to reach space starting with satalites. -
the space race begins
the race to put humans into space began with our comeptitor soviet union americas enemy at the time. -
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The space race
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russian satakite in space
sputnik the russian satalite successfully launched into space. -
american satlite hits space
american satalite launched from cape canavril succesfully into space codenamed exploror 1 -
eisenhower and kruschev nose to nose to get their country into space
both countries space programs are at full speed to reach space. NASA now leading us campaign to reach space. -
russia puts first human into space
russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin first human to ever be in space -
first american in space
Alan shepard first american to be in space -
The space race is at an end
the space race ended in a period of detente in 1972 and then in 1975 a rendozevous with a russian cosmonaut crew. -
America wins race to the moon
America put the first man on the moon. after that the race winded down.