Arms and Space Race Sputnik – 1957 Nazi scientists made great strides in building rockets Each Superpower began own missile program SU launched first man- made satellite into space – Sputnik Size of basketball, weighed 184 pounds, orbited the Earth once every 98 minutes with a radio transmitter that did little more than issue a beep to be tracked
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