Abstract
The space race, initiated during the Cold War (between 1957 and 1975), marked the beginning of the era in which humanity broke the barriers of planet Earth. Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet cosmonaut, became the first human to travel into space aboard Vostok 1. Later, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, on the Apollo 11 mission, were the first to walk on the Moon, consolidating human potential for expl…