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🏛️ History 12 minLesson 18 of 50
The space race
Satellites, moon landings and the technology behind them.
What you will learn
- Sputnik in 1957 began the space race.
- Apollo 11 landed humans on the Moon in July 1969.
- Rocketry and computing advanced rapidly under political pressure.
The Space Race (1955-1975)
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Recall drill
5 questions · write-in answer lines
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4 questions · write-in answer lines
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Test yourself
4 questions · write-in answer lines
Interactive quiz
Question 1 of 2Sputnik launched in…
