2. America wanted to be ahead of Russia(Soviets)
Both countries wanted to be the worlds powerful
leaders…. ADVANTAGE : send nuclear missiles from
space
Started with Russia sending the Sputnik to space
3. By sending many spaceships to space… First sent a dog
to space then had to figure out how to make the rocket
come back to Earth.
Sending people to the moon…. They wanted to see
which power would be first to land on the moon.
4. The United States had different civilian and military
agencies, and the military space programs were secret.
The run to the Moon, were widely available for the
world to see.
In the Soviet Union, all space programs were put into a
secret military-industrial bureaucracy. Only successful
missions were publicized.