Space Race

The Space Race, an informal competition between the United States and the Soviet Union, lasted roughly from 1957 to 1975. It involved the parallel efforts by each of those countries to explore outer space with artificial satellites, to send humans into space, and to land people on the moon.

Notes

:1 letter from Johnson written to Kennedy on 28 April 1961

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28 April - 1961

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:2 from a tape recording in the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library

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:3 James Oberg, in Final Frontier, as reprinted in The New Book of Popular Science Annual, 1992

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