1. space race - Noun
2. Space race - Proper noun
space race (plural space races)
The competition between nations in the field of space exploration.
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Space Race (generally referred to in the definite, as the Space Race)
The informal competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to launch unmanned satellites, send people into space and land them on the Moon.
I'm glad that it didn't take as long to get Shepard off the ground as it's taken this series. I'd begun to think the Congo would be ahead of us in the space race before Whispering Smith ever got on the air. Audie Murphy
Even before the publication of Margot Lee Shetterly’s : The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race, of the book—starring Octavia Spencer, Taraji P. Henson and Janelle Monáe—had been sold. Source: Internet
For example, BBC used DVCPRO50 to record high-budget TV series, such as Space Race (2005) and Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire (2006). Source: Internet
Crippen later worked on Men in Black: The Series, Yogi’s Space Race, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and other cartoons. Source: Internet
It’s not just baseball readers learn about, but Sputnik and the Space Race, the 1954 School Segregation ruling and Little Rock, women’s experiences in and out of baseball, and much more. Source: Internet
Nicholas Barnett '"Russia Wins Space Race"': The British Press and the Sputnik Moment, 1957': Media History, 19: 2 (2013), 182-195 Propaganda Soviet 40 kopeks stamp, showing satellite's orbit Sputnik 1 was not immediately used by Soviet propaganda. Source: Internet