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The United States and The Soviet Union were Cold War adversaries! Both sides wanted a one-up supremacy in being the first country to go to the Moon and explore Space. With the threat of nuclear weapons so strong in the 1960s, the thought that an enemy would claim part of Space (to do whatever "evils") was very much a threat.

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