THE SPACE RACE: THE COMPETITION THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING
Episode 8 | Human History — Groups & Movements
In this History episode we focus on the Space Race — the 12-year competition between the United States and Soviet Union that put humans on the moon, created the modern digital world, and was never really about space at all.
This episode covers Sputnik and the shock it sent through America, Yuri Gagarin's historic flight, the tragic Apollo 1 fire, the Earthrise photograph, and Neil Armstrong's first step on the moon — watched by 600 million people.
It started with a beeping beach ball in orbit. It ended with two men on the moon. And it gave us the…
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