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    Space Race “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.” [Address at Rice University, September 12 1962]- John F. Kennedy. The space race was a turing pointin U.S history. With cold war tension rising between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, they turned to space to prove their dominance. However, space exploration did have it’s critics. Many Americans saw that the spending of $23 billion dollars was unnecessary (Historyshots)

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    Have you ever wondered what the Space Race was about or happened? Well the Space Race was just a simple Race or competition between the Soviet Union and the United States which appeared and seemed as a big deal to people and took place in the mid 50ś - the mid 70ś which about when World War 2 started and ended and the Race all started when the Soviet Union launched the world´s first satellite named Sputnik In which encouraged and motivated the US to ready a rocket from there it was clear that both

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    comfortably at spot #4 is a theory that involves not only our world, but the mystery of space and the universe surrounding it. On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon...so it seems. In order to understand the motivation for this conspiracy, one has to go back further than that fateful day in 1969. All the way back to August 2, 1955: the beginning of the Space Race. The Space Race was a competition between the United States and the Soviet Union in order to declare supremacy

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    towards the Space Race, satisfying his nation (Herbert para. 6). On May 5, 1961, John F. Kennedy publicly announced the goal for America to have man landing on the moon by the end of the decade, clearly setting the finish line to the space race (“Space” para. 5). With this bold statement, it shocked many Americans including the ones in the space program as they were months to years behind the Soviet’s space program. With his goal set high, JFK feared that Americans would lose interest in the race, therefore

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    Essay On The Space Race

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    Did you know that the Space Race began a cold war? The training for the Space Race is more important than the actual moon landing. To begin with, the Space Race has a lot more depth to it. It started a cold war, made records, and revolutionized technology. Next, the astronauts had to go through a lot of physical and mental training to go to the moon. Also, being an astronaut is very dangerous.It caused many diseases and sicknesses. Lastly, the Space Race also provided the first American on the moon

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    In 1965, NASA’s annual budget was $5.2 billion; this money was spent to heat up the Space Race (“Project Apollo”). The Space Race and its competitive nature is best illustrated in this passage from John F. Kennedy’s Address at Rice University on the nation's space effort, “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge

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    fight between two nations, not with guns, but intelligence, a race to the stars, as the world watches with bated breaths, but was it worth the countless resources? In 1957 the space race ignited between the United States and the Soviet Union, however, the United States should not have joined this battle which cost them in funds, resources, and lives that would be more effectively utilized towards the betterment of their nation. The Space Race attempts to prove itself noteworthy, but it’s negative repercussions

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    million people in thirty-three countries on six continents” (182). Considering that this vast group of people, largely comprised of Americans, was tuned into this monumental event proves that the space race was captivating for its audience and the subject of utmost public attention. For Americans, the space race was a basis from which new technological developments would soon proliferate, and it served as an arena for cold war competition between the United States and the Soviet Union. Consequently, when

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    Space Race 1970s

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    United States of America and the Soviet Union competed to be the first ones to explore space. All of the hostilities were thanks to the Cold War a war of words and ideas between the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A. that lasted from 1948-1991. In this essay, I will write about one of the events in the Cold War – The Space Race: how it started, how people reacted, and who won the long lasting competition. The space

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    Race To Space Dbq

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    I believe the race to space reflected the political social and economical aspects of the cold war by making us want to send the first man to the moon and that made the war even worse because we were losing and then we came back and got the lead and that made the war even worse and in document f it states that we had a rocket called the Vanguard rocket and it began to rise and then sank back down on itself crushing its engine and bursting into a huge fireball that accident was on television and the

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