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The United States and the Soviet Union were competing to see who could use the best technology in space. An example was putting the first man on the moon.

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It was the first artificial Earth satellite to go into space launched by the U.S and it intensified the arms race and cold war conditions with the Soviet Union.

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Yuri Gagarin: The first man to reach space

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The Soviet Union was the first country to put a human on the moon. This gave them the triumph of putting the first man into space. It still continued to create competition because the two nations still wanted to win the nuclear arms race and to create new technologies to send into space.

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In July, 1958 NASA was created and it was designed to explore and research Earth’s atmosphere.

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President Kennedy thought it was very important to get a man on the moon because of tensions in the Cold War and competition with the Soviet Union. Apollo was designed to execute this goal.

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Overall, the United States won the space race because of Sputnik's launch.

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The U.S and Soviet Union were competing to send the first satellite into outer space. This started the space race when the U.S launched Sputnik 1. When the Soviet Union put the first man into space, it started the whole competition between the two nations. The U.S finally passed up the Soviet’s on one competition. They were the first to send an artificially made satellite into orbit. These were just some of the ways the US and USSR competed with one another.