sputnik

The space race was a Cold War battle for supremacy, fought with rockets instead of bombs. It ended with humanity's greatest adventure.

Space exploration began on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1. In the decades since, humans have walked on the Moon, robots have visited every planet, a space station has been continuously crewed since 2000, and Artemis II sent four astronauts around the Moon in April 2026.