User:JustinTime55/sandbox/Infobox Space Race

Space Race
Part of the Cold War
The United States directed the Space Race to landing humans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin (pictured) on the Moon. The Soviet Union, failing to land humans on the Moon, concentrated on low Earth orbit space stations such as Mir.
Date	August 2 1955 – December 25 1991 (36 years, 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days)
Result	The United States lands humans on the Moon The Soviet Union builds a modular space station The United States develops a reusable Space Shuttle The US and Russian Federation collaborate on the International Space Station
Competitors
United States Soviet Union
Political leaders
Dwight D. Eisenhower John F. Kennedy James E. Webb Lyndon B. Johnson Richard Nixon Ronald Reagan Nikita Khrushchev Leonid Brezhnev Mikhail Gorbachev
Technical leaders
Wernher von Braun Maxime Faget Robert Gilruth Sergei Korolev
Achievements
Space rendezvous and docking Long-duration flights (83 days) Productive extravehicular activity Landing humans on the Moon Reusable Space Shuttle Space rendezvous and docking Modular space stations (Mir) Long-duration flights (816 days)
Catastrophes
Apollo 1 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster Nedelin catastrophe Soyuz 1 Soyuz 11
Near catastrophes
Gemini 8 Apollo 13 Voskhod 2 Soyuz T-10-1
Costs
Est. $25.8 billion (mid-20th century USD)