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The Space Race

Roald Sagdeev when the USSR and the US vied with each other to make the greatest advances

Roald Sagdeev was put in charge of the Moscow Space Science Institute in 1973. He remembers the days of the Space Race when the Soviet Union and the United States vied with each other to make the greatest advances in new technology.

Picture: Valentina Tereshkova, the first person in Space, Credit: Getty Images

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