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Detailed explanation-1: -Overview. The “space race” was a Cold War competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to develop aerospace capabilities, including artificial satellites, unmanned space probes, and human spaceflight.

Detailed explanation-2: -The space race was a period of competition between the Soviet Union and the United States over who could conquer space exploration first.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Soviet space program (Russian: , romanized: Kosmicheskaya programma SSSR) was the national space program of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), active from 1955 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Detailed explanation-4: -The United States became the first – and only – country to have astronauts walk on the Moon. The Soviet Union never landed a man on the Moon. Instead, the country focused on using unmanned spacecraft to explore the Moon and built a space station. After years of competition, the race to the Moon was over.