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Space Race

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The Space Race (Russian: космическая гонка, romanized: kosmicheskaya gonka, IPA: [kɐsˈmʲitɕɪskəjə ˈɡonkə]) was a 20th-century competition between the Cold War rivals, the United States and the Soviet Union, to achieve superior spaceflight capability. It had its origins in the ballistic missile-based nuclear arms race between the two nations that followed World War II and the onset of the Cold War.

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Key people

Yuri Gagarin1934 – 1968Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, first human in space (1934–1968)
Neil Armstrong1930 – 2012American astronaut and lunar explorer (1930–2012)
Sergei Korolev1906 – 1966Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966)
Wernher von Braun1912 – 1977German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
Valentina Tereshkovab. 1937Russian cosmonaut and pilot, first woman to have flown in space (born 1937)
Buzz Aldrinb. 1930American astronaut (born 1930)

Everything that happened

1965Voskhod 2—Voskhod 2 (Russian: Восход-2, lit. 'Sunrise-2') was a Soviet crewed space mission in March 1965. The Vostok-based Voskhod 3KD spacecraft with two crew members on board, Pavel Belyayev and Alexei Leonov, was equipped with an inflatable airlock.
1975Apollo–Soyuz—Apollo–Soyuz was the first crewed international space mission, conducted jointly by the United States and the Soviet Union in July 1975. Millions watched on television as an American Apollo spacecraft docked with a Soviet Soyuz capsule. The mission and its symbolic "handshake in space" became an emblem of détente during the Cold War.