The Space Race
1957–1975 · Event
The US-Soviet rivalry in spaceflight, from Sputnik to the Apollo-Soyuz handshake in orbit.
On these timelines: Science & Technology, Cold War, Master, Spaceflight, USA
More from Science & Technology
- Isaac Newton (1643)
- De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (1543)
- Invention of the transistor (1947)
- Bell patents the telephone (1876)
- Edison's incandescent light bulb (1879)
- Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials (1829)
- Mendeleev's Periodic Table (1869)
- First electronic computer (ENIAC) (1946)
Around 1957
- Apartheid (1948)
- Korean War (1950)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)