Here's a quote from astronaut Frank Borman: "I was teaching at West Point when Sputnik was announced. ... The Cold War was a very real thing and there was a very great concern of a nuclear exchange and all of a sudden this country that was our real enemy had jumped the gun and launched a satellite, and it was an enormous impact. The [American] public began to question our educational system, they questioned the Eisenhower administration. It was a time of very, very serious self-doubt across the whole society"
it made the US citizens cry! it was the begging of the NBA and birth of lebron james
President Kennedy entered the US into the space race in 1961.
the space race
Because it was a "race" between the USSR and the US to reach space milestones first.
The United States competed with the Soviet Union in the space race during the Cold War.
The arms race caused a great deal of anxiety for US citizens, who thought that an attack was inevitable. It also motivated the space race, arguably mankind's most impressive scientific advance.
it made the US citizens cry! it was the begging of the NBA and birth of lebron james
President Kennedy entered the US into the space race in 1961.
the space race
Because it was a "race" between the USSR and the US to reach space milestones first.
The space race was when the us and the ussr tried to get the newest equipment into space. It happened between 1957 and 1975.
The SPACE RACE
No..The US and the Soviet Union.
The United States won the space race by landing Neil Armstrong on the moon.
USSR and US
The soviet union
no