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Space race

Took place on October 4, 1957

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The 70th anniversary falls on October 4, 2027, in 345 days.

The Space Race (Russian: космическая гонка, romanized: kosmicheskaya gonka, IPA:) was a 20th-century competition between the Cold War rivals, the United States and the Soviet Union, to achieve superior spaceflight capability.

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