What was Cold War?

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The Space Race began in the 1950s. It was the time of the Cold War, in which the United States and the Soviet Union fought for technological superiority. Each country wanted to prove that its political and economic system was better. Both superpowers wanted to launch the first satellite and put a human being into space. To the shock of the US, the Soviets had beaten them in the first phase of the Space Race. In 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human sent into Earth's orbit, only a month before American astronaut Alan Shepard was launched into space.