

Crash Course History of Science
Air Travel and The Space Race
S1 • E37 Feb 18, 2019 10m
Like the Industrial or the Einsteinian Revolution, the Space Race is a trope, or way of organizing historical events into a story that makes sense. In this story, the two great powers that emerged after World War Two—the United States and Soviet Union—competed to send communications satellites, dogs, and people into outer space.