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Both created massive debris clouds. The International Space Station had to dodge Russian debris. These should have been Sputnik moments,” he said. “The problem is, we never embraced them as ...

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However, with the space race between us and the Soviets in full swing, Yuri Gagarin’s April 1961 orbital flight dimmed our joy. Again, they had beaten us.

The Space Race between the United States and the Soviets officially begins. Nov. 3, 1957: The Soviets send the first living creature — Laika the dog — into orbit aboard Sputnik 2.

The actual space race had kicked off a decade earlier, when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first artificial satellite, in 1957.