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This was a competitive competition between the United States and the soviet union shooting for who's superior in space technology. They wanted to see who could do it first and quicker.

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The Us felt they were falling behind to the soviets. Tempted other countries to send space tech. Due to the Soviets losing they had more of a drive than ever to beat the Us.
This is important because it describes how and why the Soviets were so driven to win the space race.

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Sputnik 1 successfully took off into space in Oct. 1957. It began the space age. This success from the U.S challenged the Soviet Union to put the first man into space.
This is important because this is what started the space race and got soviets into it.

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NASA was established in 1958 for the research and developments in the space race.
This brought a group of professionals together to try to win the space race.

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They were battling to send the first satellite. Which was attempted to either venus or the moon. When the Soviet Union put the first man into space it created another spark to compete.

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The Soviet Union was the first country to put a man into space. This pushed the U.S to shoot for putting a man on the moon. This was important because it pushed the US to send a man into space.

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The arms race is very similar to the space race, just a lot more deadly. It was a competition to see who could make the more deadly and bigger nuclear bomb. This was one of the main competitions between US and Soviet union

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Just like the arms race and the space race this was a race to gold medals. A race to victory. This was another competetion just now in sports. This was a huge competition watched by the world.

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The U.S and soviet union were competing to send the first satellite to the moon and venus. This kicked off the space race when the U.S put sputnik into orbit. When the soviet union put the first man into space. This sparked the competition between them. When the U.S finally surpassed the USSR and landed a man on the moon. This was a big part of the famous rivalry.

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The impact on nuclear weapons then is that there is still a competition of nuclear devices going on today. Countries such as The US, North Korea, and Russia are always making more high powered weapons.

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Just like the arms race a lot of the impact is the new development. Nasa is always sending stuff into outer space or to mars. With the space race back then big stories such as water found on mars would never be a thing.

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The Soviet and US rivalry is still around today as they always go head to head. That in my opinion is what started rivalries and can compare to many other than Us and Russia such as, Sweden and Finland, and in hockey US and Canada.