Which of these characteristics is shared by all living things? They make their own chemical energy.
They grow and develop when one cell divides into two.
They are made up of one or more cells.
They have similar responses to light.

The soviet union beat the us to the first successful launch, with the october 4, 1957, orbiting of sputnik 1, and later beat the us to have the first human in earth orbit, yuri gagarin, on april 12, 1961. the "race" peaked with the july 20, 1969, us landing of the first humans on the moon with apollo 11