Question

What was the influence of the space race on the Cold War?

Answer 1

I know that it allowed for there to be competition without actually a war... or am I wrong? @neonumbrella5115

Answer 2

@King.Void.

Answer 3

The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union and the United States, for supremacy in spaceflight capability. The technological superiority required for such supremacy was seen as necessary for national security, and symbolic of ideological superiority. The Space Race spawned pioneering efforts to launch artificial satellites, unmanned probes of the Moon, Venus, and Mars, and human spaceflight in low Earth orbit and to the Moon. The competition began on August 2, 1955, when the Soviet Union responded to the US announcement four days earlier of intent to launch artificial satellites for the International Geophysical Year, by declaring they would also launch a satellite "in the near future". The Soviet Union beat the US to this, with the October 4, 1957 launch of Sputnik 1. The Space Race peaked with the July 20, 1969 US landing of the first humans on the Moon with Apollo 11, and concluded in a period of détente with the April 1972 agreement on a co-operative Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, resulting in the July 1975 rendezvous in Earth orbit of a US astronaut crew with a Soviet cosmonaut crew.
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Answer 4

@BloomLocke367
That's true! It was like an unspoken battle between Russia and America. Also, the space race was symbolic of ideological superiority.

Answer 5

What do you mean? @neonumbrella5115

Answer 6

This may make me sound dumb, but I don't understand what you mean by the space race was symbolic of ideological superiority...

Answer 7

You don't understand what I gave you?

Answer 8

I understand you, I don't understand what neonumbrella5115 meant by the last sentence.

Answer 9

Oh...

Answer 10

wait, yours said that too. duh *face palm*

Answer 11

Lol..

Answer 12

do you can think you can explain it?

Answer 13

The space race during the Cold War provided another way for the superpowers to compete without direct military conflict.The "space race" between the Soviet Union and the United States was on. [ But our first attempts at catching up ended in spectacular explosions. You can see how newspapers reported both the Sputnik launch and a U.S. "Flopnik" launch when an early U.S. rocket blew up. NASA, the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, was created in 1958 to bring competing military space programs into one effort. Soon, they developed the rockets, built the space capsules and satellites and hired astronauts to become space men. The long term effects of the space race on Nebraska and other regions of the country came in the way the space race changed the educational system and the imaginations of our people
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Answer 14

So, what I don't understand is what ideological superiority is..

Answer 15

can you explain it to me?

Answer 16

@King.Void. @neonumbrella5115

Answer 17

@Nurali