The United States, because the technology of NASA allowed the Apollo missions to reach the Moon between 1969 and 1972.
The Soviets managed to bring back samples with a robot probe, but it was too little, too late. The weakening in the Soviet economy led to a reduction in space activities, although they continued the Soyuz manned program in support of their Salyut and Mir space stations in the 1970s and 1980s.
They wanted to win the space race against the Soviet Union.
In the late 1950s the Soviet Union appeared to be winning the Space Race. They launched the first earth satellite and put the first human, Yuri Gagarin, in space.
Basically by outspending and producing better technology than the Soviet Union. Also, the United States was the first and only country to put a man on the moon.
The Soviet Union did not win any gold medals at the 2008 Olympics, because there is no longer a Soviet Union.
How did the Soviet Union try to win support from emerging nations? This is from the American Nations book Page 779, Question 4.
The soviet union government collapsed
The United States won the space race by landing Neil Armstrong on the moon.
They appealed to the peasants and had support from the Soviet Union
The USA won the space race when it landed American men on the moon in July 20, 1969.
The soviets won first into space, the Americans first to the moon
America wanted to be THE super power of the world. And it saw that winning the space race would deliver them that title.
Main thing was the weather/climate and their knowledge about the battle before the battle.