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America During The Cold War: The Space Race

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The Space Race was two global powers, the United States and Soviet Union, going against each other to see who had the better technology. America technically won the Space Race by landing the first man to the moon and returning him safely. A lot of people thought that landing on the moon was the greatest moment of all time, but some think otherwise. Since America went to the moon there was a lot of thing that we gained. Technology nowadays, a single smartphone can probably power up a whole lunar module. More importantly, America gained unity with other countries. Since America had a rivalry with the Soviet Union they didn’t really have any connections and couldn’t work with each other very well, but since America went to the moon the U.S.S.R had great respect for us since we beat them in the “Space Race”. We had made new …show more content…

Back then when the Cold War started, the Soviet Union always somehow came on top of USA. John F. Kennedy, at the time the U.S. president from 1961-1963, was tired of America always being in second place especially the “Space Race”. America was far behind from the Soviet Union, they send the first successful satellite into orbit and send the first man into space, while America try to send rockets into space, but usually ends up in a explosion. Especially when America tried their first lunar module landing, Apollo 1, but sadly there was some technical difficulties, then there was a fire and Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger B. Chaffee sadly died in that fire. That was the point in the “Space Race” where it looked like America lost. John F. Kennedy speech though continue to motivate NASA and America to not give up and continue the dream of landing on the moon. This moon landing was the matter of becoming better than the Soviets,”President Kennedy’s 1961 proposal that the primary motivation for sending a man to the Moon was political, not scientific” (Lowman

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