The motivation for the Space race was to become the leading country in the world. Everyone wanted to be the best and make the first discoveries.
President Kennedy entered the US into the space race in 1961.
The space race was still on. Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin went to space, being the first person to ever go into space.
The first rockets that carried man into space were made by the Russian's in 1961. The USA didn't get a man into space until 1964 but beat the Russians to the moon in 1969.
The United States of America was first in the "Space Race" which was a race to see which country would be first to land on the moon.
The motivation for the Space race was to become the leading country in the world. Everyone wanted to be the best and make the first discoveries.
President Kennedy entered the US into the space race in 1961.
technically it was not a race the countries just wanted to send the first person to space. unfortunately Russia won on on April 12 1961 followed by America on May 5 1961
The space race was still on. Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin went to space, being the first person to ever go into space.
The first rockets that carried man into space were made by the Russian's in 1961. The USA didn't get a man into space until 1964 but beat the Russians to the moon in 1969.
That was the year the space race to get an American to the moon began
The United States of America was first in the "Space Race" which was a race to see which country would be first to land on the moon.
The space race was started by the USSR on October 4, 1957 with the launch of Sputnik 1.
The United States has accomplished the most in space exploration.
The motivation for the great Space Race is very simple. Every country wanted to be the first to make the greatest discovery in space.
No. By the early 1960's the space race was on. JFK spoke about sending a man to the moon in 1961 and John Glenn had all ready orbited the earth.
The United States of America was first in the "Space Race" which was a race to see which country would be first to land on the moon.