Once again, the soviets get there first by launching astronaut yuri gagarin into space.
List of When Did The Space Race End
Pictures. After apollo 11 landed on the moon's surface in july 1969, six more apollo missions followed by the end of 1972. It is still going on until this day.
The New Space Race from cdn.substack.com
The president richard milhouse nixon was not a big supporter of the space program. The space race ended in 1975. As the communist soviet union and the democratic, capitalist united states poured money into nuclear.
Euronews takes a look back at the space race and significance of the moon landing.
The space race sparked unprecedented increases in spending on. National air and space museum]. But the actual race has ended. It captured the public's interest.