the space race

otlichnow awesome   During  the cold war the us and ussr were also locked in a space race starting  the  when the soviet  union launched the first artifical satellite sputnik in 1957. The  next  year the us launched a satellite  and  founded the national aeronautic and adonistraton nasa. The space race led to focus on math and science in American  school. In April 1961 Yuri Gagarin  of the ussr become the first person to orbit the earth  The  us Neil  armstrong and Edwin  buzz  woll prere the first peolpe walk on the moon on July  20, 1969 during the Apollo  project. from book called world history