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And finally, the space effort itself, while still in its infancy, has already created a great number of new companies, and tens of thousands of new jobs. Space and related industries are generating new demands in investment and skilled personnel, and this city and this State, and this region, will share greatly in this growth.

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The growth of our science and education will be enriched by new knowledge of our universe and environment, by new techniques of learning and mapping and observation, by new tools and computers for industry, medicine, the home as well as the school. Technical institutions, such as Rice, will reap the harvest of these gains.

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Despite the striking fact that most of the scientists that the world has ever known are alive and working today, despite the fact that this Nation's own scientific manpower is doubling every 12 years in a rate of growth more than three times that of our population as a whole, despite that, the vast stretches of the unknown and the unanswered and the unfinished still far outstrip our collective comprehension.

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L: A Political Cartoon depicting the American Space Program

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L: A Political Cartoon depicting the American Space Program

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For the eyes of the world now look into space, to the moon and to the planets beyond, and we have vowed that we shall not see it governed by a hostile flag of conquest, but by a banner of freedom and peace. We have vowed that we shall not see space filled with weapons of mass destruction, but with instruments of knowledge and understanding.

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This is a breathtaking pace, and such a pace cannot help but create new ills as it dispels old, new ignorance, new problems, new dangers. Surely the opening vistas of space promise high costs and hardships, as well as high reward.

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The areas in which NASA-developed technologies benefit society can broadly be defined as: health and medicine, transportation, public safety, consumer goods, environmental and agricultural resources, computer technology and industrial productivity.

Inventions have included breathing equipment for firefighters,

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N: A political cartoon captioned "Still no Countdown on this missile"

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N: A political cartoon captioned "Still no Countdown on this missile"

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J: A 1959 US Report on How the US and USSR space programs were viewed by the general public

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J: A 1959 US Report on How the US and USSR space programs were viewed by the general public

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Sensitivity to military implications is marked and has produced strong concern over the possibility that the USSR now enjoys military superiority over the West, and a belief in some quarters that this is a fact.

Soviet successes in space have produced a major revision in the image of the USSR and to some degree of the Soviet system, and lent greatly enhanced credibility to Soviet propaganda claims. The USSR, by appearing to have spectacularly overtaken the US in a field in which the US was very generally assumed to be first by a wide margin, is now able to present itself as fully comparable to the US and able to challenge it in any field it chooses

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K: A political cartoon depicting the US Mariner IV Mission to Mars

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K: A political cartoon depicting the US Mariner IV Mission to Mars

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We choose to go to the moon. 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 we intend to win, and the others, too.

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We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. For space science, like nuclear science and all technology, has no conscience of its own. Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man, and only if the United States occupies a position of pre-eminence can we help decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of peace or a new terrifying theater of war.

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H: Launching the Space Age, National Air and Space Museum

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H: Launching the Space Age, National Air and Space Museum

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On October 4, 1957, a Soviet intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launched Sputnik and the Space Age. This event startled the world, giving the impression that America was behind the Soviets in science and technology. Subsequent U.S. launch failures heightened that perception. The competition to build rockets now also became a competition to reach space. Americans were upset at being bested by their Cold War rival and fearful that the Soviets could soon use missiles to launch a surprise nuclear attack.

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M: A political cartoon depicting the Soviet Space Program

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M: A political cartoon depicting the Soviet Space Program

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I believe the Space Race was genuinely a good idea. If it was strictly kept to helping the country and it's citizens it would have been 100% a good idea. It helped us to make new jobs which made the unemployed rates decrease. The employment and technology helped Americans become more hopeful for the future of the United States.

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I think that the Space Race was generally good for the US, because of the advances in science and technology that it provided us. It allowed for the best and smartest people the US had at the time to come together and create new ideas to improve the US. It also created something for all of the US to root for together and created a way for the US to unite over a common ground/ topic. The US also gained an opportunity to put the USSR in it's place through competing with them in the Space Race. As the US and USSR have historically been enemies, it was likely helpful for them to have a source of competition that was generally a peaceful one.