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The cold war served as the backdrop of the competition to find out which superpower--the United States or the Soviet Union--could reach outer space first. On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, and the space race was officially on.Crompton, Samuel Willard is the author of 'Sputnik/Explorer I The Race to Conquer Space', published 2007 under ISBN 9780791093573 and ISBN 0791093573.
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