THE RACE INTENSIFIES
The escalation of the Space Race, starting with the USSR’s launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957 and the USA’s response, leading to the founding of NASA in 1958 and the eventual first US crewed spaceflight in 1961 by Alan Shepard
Space History
The Space Race begins
What began as a contest for military superiority between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II quickly evolved into a race beyond Earth.
