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Explorer 1, the first American satellite to reach orbit, is launched on January 31, 1958. It carried scientific equipment that lead to the discovery of the Van Allen radiation belt.

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USSR launches Sputnik 2 on November 3, 1957 which carried a small dog named Laika into orbit

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This political cartoon depicts the space race between the Soviet Union and The United States. It shows the Soviet Union's scientific advance compared to the United States because the U.S. was having issues with government and education that caused it to lag behind in scientific advances and space exploration. The U.S. had to carry a lot of weight while The Soviet Union did not.

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The first Lunar landing mission, on July 16, 1969, the massive Saturn V rocket lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

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Neil Armstrong was the first man to set foot on the moon with his now legendary words "One small step for man, a giant leap for
mankind."

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Launched by the Soviet Union, Sputnik 1 was a metal sphere the size of large beach ball  with four antennas that broadcast a simple pattern of signals.  <br> 

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The Space Race was a 20th-century (1955–1972) competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union and the United States, for supremacy in spaceflight capability. each side sought to prove the superiority of its technology, its military firepower and–by extension–its political-economic system. On October 4, 1957, a Soviet R-7 intercontinental ballistic missile launched Sputnik (Russian for “traveler”), the world’s first artificial satellite and the first man-made object to be placed into the Earth’s orbit. Putting a man on the moon became an official governmental priority. On July 20, 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first humans to walk on another planetary body.

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The space race was important to the struggle between the US and Soviet Union because it showed their competitiveness against each other and it also portrayed both countries' need to control as many things as possible. Each country did not want the other to gain the upper hand because they feared they would eventually be taken over. The U.S. and Soviet Union both believed that if they were able to produce the best outer space technology, they would have an advantage over each other.

The space race ultimately had a large impact on America and the World today. It gave America the upper hand when they put the first man on the moon. It also inspired scientists to invent space technology that would further exploration and help them learn more about outer space. Without the space race, the world may not be as advanced in space technology nor have as much knowledge about outer space.