Answer: SPACERACE
The answer SPACERACE has 19 possible clues. See the results below.
Possible Clues:
- One-time rocket rivalry
- 20th-century "sprint" to the moon
- One getting into awful scrape in competition between US and USSR
- It was launched with Sputnik
- Cold War competition
- Competition spurred by Sputnik
- Competition with rockets
- Cold War contest featuring Sputnik and Apollo
- Event started by 38-Across