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In October 1957, the launch of Sputnik transformed outer space from science fiction into reality. What had long belonged to magazines, books and cinematic fantasy suddenly became a domain of power competition. Throughout the Cold War, the Space Race (roughly 1955–1975)  a fast pace period of space exploration, unfolded technological rivalry and ideological spectacle with the United States and the Soviet Union, projecting visions of modernity, power, and destiny beyond Earth’