Things like your eye color and height are not traits you can control. In fact, you inherit traits like these from your parents. These traits are passed on because they are controlled by
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It is evolution, because we all have some of the same traits like eye color or shape or ears.

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