The Space Race officially began on August 4th, 1957 at 7.28 PM Moscow time.

That was when Sputnik was launched into orbit as the first artificial satellite,

and from that moment it was on.

But when did the space race end? That's a much trickier question and there's no formal answer.

However, I think an excellent case can be made for July 17th, 1975.

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and the handshake that ended the space race

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If you ask most people when the space race ended,

I'm sure most of them would say it ended

when Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. This isn't actually a bad answer.

This was the primary objective, at least for the Americans, and it was, and still

remains, the biggest feat in spaceflight.

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