”When the Soviets launched the world’s first artificial satellite, Sputnik I, in October 1957, it set
off alarm bells in the Eisenhower administration and created intense fear and anxiety among
the US public that the Soviet Union had surpassed the technological achievements of the
United States.
The start of the Cold War began when President Truman offered to support countries that were being threatened by Russia
(USSR). As a result, the space race was started when Russia launched the first space satellite “The Sputnik” I’m 1957. NASA
(National Aeronautics and Space Administration was formed by the U.S. to build the first manned space travel.
The Cold War started because Truman offered support to countries that were threatened by Moscow (Russia). This triggered the space race between Russia and the U.S.
As a result, the space race was started when Russia launched the first space satellite “The Sputnik” I’m 1957. NASA
(National Aeronautics and Space Administration was formed by the U.S. to build the first manned space travel.
“And now we are demonstrating in front of the whole world that, having taken power into our own hands, the worker, who mastered literacy, knowledge, science and not only mastered in order to maintain it at the level that it was, but he developed, advanced this science and has reached such heights, that our country has overtaken all the countries of the world and was the first to break forth into space, and the man returned” (Khrushchev).
The Soviet Union was the first country to send a man into space, and he survived.
Khrushchev, the leader of the Soviet Union, said this was the first step for the Soviet Union to get to victory in the Space Race and eventually they would launch more people into space. The US was taking more time to accomplish the same achievement. At this point, the Soviet Union was winning the Space Race.