What characteristic do all deserts share?

It is dry. A desert has low moisture because of low rainfall, high evaporation, or extreme cold. Also sand and ice, desert landscapes can be mad up of gravel, sandy soil, and outcroppings of bare rock.

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