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The space race was part of the cold war with the soviet union.
the space race started when the soviet union union launched Sputnik into space.
They wanted to win the space race against the Soviet Union.
It created a massive shock to all Americans and a race to catch up in the advancements of space programming. Americans were set on beating the Soviet Union, so they tried to catch up as well as surpass the Soviet's technological advances leading up to the first man on the moon.
America and the Soviet Union were in a race to the moon.
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The space race consisted of The Soviet Union (before it crashed), and the United States of America.
The Soviet Union put "Sputnik" the first satellite in orbit, and the US saw their superiority as a threat and had to catch up.
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