Today we looked at the Space Race. It was a Cold War battle between the US & USSR on Earth and in space. It began when the USSR launched the first satellite to space called Sputnik in 1957. The race intensified looking towards the moon. President John F. Kennedy pledged to the American people that the US would be the first nation to land people on the moon and indeed, the US did it in 1969. We looked at other important aspects of the Space Race between 1957 - 1969.