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The USSR responded to the USA who said they intend to launch the first satellite into space, by making a stalitle of their own. On this day the USSR sent the first Earth-orbiting satellite in history. This caused the Americans to become frightened because they felt like they are constantly being spied on. This event is super significant because it kick-started the space race!

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USSR sent another object to space before the USA could even launch one. This time the USSR send the first every living being to space. They chose a dog by the name Laika. This causes the USA to panic because they realised that they are so far behind the USSR in the space race. Also unfortunately Laika the dog could not make it back alive.

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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration was created by the USA so that they could keep up with the USSR in the space race. This made the American people happy because they were upset by the fact that they constantly lost to the USSR.  This is super significant to the rest of the Space race and modern society because NASA is the main space agency for space exploration.

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Both the USSR and USA had some major space advances over the years, they gap between the USA and USSR is not that wide. USA have sent a couple of satellites into space and the USSR have been getting closer to the moon. However the USSR take a giant leap forward by sending Sputnik 5 into space with two dogs, Belka and Strelka and a range of plants into space, but the big part is they got them to land successfully. This made them the first living beings to go to space and survive.

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The first man in space! Yuri Gagarin went aboard the Vostok 1 and blasted into space. While he was up there he made one full orbit around the earth, he was up there for a grand total of one hour and forty-eight minutes. He had smooth landings as well. At this point, it is clear as day that the USSR is ahead in the space race. Even the most patriotic American would see that. NASA is forced to step up there game and try to pull ahead.

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During this time moral around the space race was at an all time low for the Americans, it seemed impossible for them to beat the USSR. However this speech by JFK was a turning point. He exclaimed, "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 is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which" This gave hope to all of America and really was the turning point in the USA space race.

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"one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" A lot has happened since the speech but both the USSR and the USA were working their absolute hardest to get to the moon. It basically was the first to the moon is the winner of the space race. Both the USSR and the USA had taken some major losses before getting to this point. Like Apollo 1 for the USA, where 3 astronauts died, and Soyuz 1 where a cosmonaut died. However, the bold USA sent out Apollo 11 where Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, and Michael Collins were sent to reach the moon. They were some problems they had to face but they landed well on the moon and became the first people on the moon. This officially meant that the United States of America won the space race.

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This can be seen as the official end to the space race. The tensions between the USA and USSR had softened. So they launched the first cooperative mission called the Apollo-Soyuz mission. The Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft dock in space and the two commanders who were Tom Stafford and Alexei Leonov exchange the first international handshake. In the end, Looking at a race that lasted for two decades that had some of the best scientific feets imaginable makes me wonder what if they worked together from the start. what achievements would they have achieved? That is the major consequence I see in the space race.

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How significant was the space race? Some people can see the space race as a side event in the cold war. People believe that the proxy wars, nuclear bombs, and the berlin wall were the only important ones, however, they could not be more wrong. The space race was a giant step in the field of science, more specifically; telecommunications, micro-technology, computer science, and solar power. Lots of stuff we use today become of the space race. For instance, if someone ever gets badly injured and doctors need to use a CT scan to see what going on, they would because of the space race. That is because CAT scans and radiography were both initially developed for deep-space imaging and photography. Also, the world's first portable computer and mouse were created for space exploration and then adapted for commercial markets. Even the wireless headsets we use today originate from NASA creating hands-free equipment for astronauts and pilots. As well as without the space race so much of what we know about space would not have happened. Maybe we would just have started to get people to the moon. Also, now all the major projects we have in space exploration like going to start civilization on mars and project Artemis by NASA would not happen. Lastly, the most important thing that the space race attributed to is a generation of people who are inspired and want to keep exploring. Lots of people inspired by these events want to be the next generation of astronauts and scientist, who change the world.