What is a mutation?
A. When something goes unexpected in your body
B. Permanent change in the DNA of a gene
C. When you wake up with super powers
D. When an organism has a genetic abnormality but survives

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