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Digital History Digital History Printable Version The Space Race Previous Next Digital History ID 3426 In October 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite. The 184-pound, 22.5-inch sphere orbited the earth once every 96 minutes. Sputnik transmitted radio sig...

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The Space Race was a competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), for supremacy in spaceflight capability. It had its origins in the missile -based nuclear arms race between the two nations that occurred following World War , enabled by captured German...