Meaning & use
space race
The 20th-century competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to achieve superior spaceflight capability.
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The space race led to the first human landing on the Moon in 1969.
Sputnik's launch in 1957 is often seen as the start of the space race.
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'Space race' is usually capitalized informally when referring specifically to that Cold War era rivalry.
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