Things You'll Only See In Russia

Cosmonauts

The Space Race was mainly between Russia and the United States. In the 1950s, people were very concerned about how would get to the moon first. In 1959, Russia took the lead with Sputnik and cosmonauts. Russia used their own citizens for test launches and lost many lives because of its less-than-ideal tests.

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