Future History 1968: The Space Race Heats Up

The Space Race was so fervent by 1968 that Yuri Gagarin, the first man to make it to space, had become a celebrity in the USSR.

But his next challenge was to beat American Neil Armstrong to the moon — and neither the USSR nor the US were prepared.

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