Space Race

The Space Race was when the U.S and the Soviet Union were trying to see who could make it to space first. Well the first country that made it to space was the Soviet Union. The satellite that the Soviet Union launched was named Sputnik. The U.S was mad, they felt inferior, they thought that the Soviet Union was gonna throw nuclear bombs on them from there. Of course it never happened, both countries were afraid to fight against each other. The next year the U.S launched their first satellite into space. In 1969 the U.S was the first country to send a man to space and to the moon. We claimed the moon. The Soviet Union was mad because they did not make it to the moon before the U.S did. Both countries were taking pictures of each others countries with their satellites.