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The Race To The Moon
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At the start, there were no set rules for the Space Race. What would count as winning? What was the goal? For Americans, President Kennedy's declaration narrowed the Space Race down to one precise goal: landing a man on the Moon before the Soviets. The Space Race became a race to the Moon. For ....
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.... Soviet Union stunned the world with the launch of the Sputnik "satellite" on October 4, 1957. Sputnik was a shiny basketball-size sphere containing radio transmitters. Sputnik announced to the world the beginning of the Space Age. Coming only a few weeks after the Soviets' successful test launch of the first intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), Sputnik marked the USSR's proficiency in rocketry and their potential to conquer space. (Gold 30).
Only one month after its "October surprise,.... |
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