-THE SPACE RACE -
AN OBSERVATION OF OPPOSING SIDES.
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By Alexander Kozlov and Aidan Staunton
Senior Division
By Alexander Kozlov and Aidan Staunton
Senior Division
During the Cold War, an event spurred by the differences between communist and non-communist nations, the Soviet Union initiated the Space Race, a competition between itself and the American government to achieve superiority in space exploration. Each wished to prove itself as Earth’s greatest superpower, and they saw the greatest way to accomplish that was to leave the earth itself. If it had not been for this rivalry, then we may have never gone to the moon. The space race was the greatest thing to happen to both the US and Soviet Union because it helped establish new technologies and set a basis for scientific progress.