The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War adversaries, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), to achieve superior spaceflight capability. It had its origins in the ballistic missile-based nuclear arms race between the two nations following World War II.
President JFK started the space race. It was a race against multiple countries to see who could get to the moon the fastest. It start around 1960. It was in different countries and space. The wanted to see who could get to the moon the fastest. With a spaceship.
