Episode 12 - The Space Race

This week we talk about a whole lot of firsts while the world first began exploring space. Known as the Space Race, we talk about the US and USSR perseverance in getting to the moon and beyond. #PIAPO

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Sources:

• History.com – The Space Race by History.com Editors

•  Space.com – What Was the Space Race? By Adam Mann

• PBS.org – The Space Race

• Royal Museums Greenwich – Space Race Timeline

• Smithsonian Magazine – The Space Race by Michael Kernan

• Digital History – The Space Race

• NASA – The Decision to Go to the Moon

• Space.com – Sputnik

• History.com – Sputnik Launched

• Russian Space Web - The USSR orbits second artificial satellite with dog Laika onboard

• History.com – Monkeys Travel to Space by History.com Editors

• NASA.gov – Who has walked on the moon

• NASA.gov – The International Space Station

• Space.com – International Space Station