Space race

Question 1

What were the main events in the space race?

Answer 1

The first satellite was sent by the ussr in October 1957-Sputnik seen as triumph for communism

The ussr sends the first human into space in April 1961-yuri Gagarin

The moon landing is achieved by the USA on July 1969-Neil Armstrong

In July 1975 the first join space mission commences Apollo-soyuz this showed a sign of a new age of co-operation between the two