Name: 【TED-Ed】Who won the space race? - Jeff Steers
Uploaded: 2013-09-28T13:26:05.000Z
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against Allied cities as a last-ditch effort

the technology and the scientists that had developed it

and began using them for their own projects.

the first intercontinental ballistic missile, the R-7,

could be used to launch a nuclear warhead at any city.

and launch a satellite as soon as possible.

and crashed to the ground two seconds later.

The Vanguard failure was a huge embarassment

And a Soviet delegate at the U.N. mockingly suggested

on their own parallel project, The Explorer,

which was successfully launched in January 1958,

but the U.S. had barely managed to catch up

as Yuri Gargarin became the first man in space

By this time, President Kennedy had realized

to each Soviet advance a few months later

and in May 1961, a month after Gargarin's flight,

They succeeded in this through the Apollo program

with Neil Armstrong taking his famous step

With both countries' next turning their attention

negotiated by Soviet Premier Leonid Breshnev

the U.S.S.R. and U.S. moved toward cooperation

marked the end of the space race in 1975.

Two major superpowers trying to outdo each other

but the biggest benefits of the space program

had nothing to do with one country beating another.

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【TED-Ed】Who won the space race? - Jeff Steers

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