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The space race between the United States and the Soviet Union
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This was the successful launching of a Soviet Satellite. Three weeks after launch its batteries died and was rendered useless.
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This was the first sattelite sent into orbit by the United States.
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This was the first human space program sent out by any country. The Soviet Union sent this out with cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.
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John Glenn was the first American astronaut to leave the Earth's orbit or to make it into space.
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This was President JFK's speech at Rice University where he talked about how we made it to the moon safely.
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This was the first successful landing on the moon as well as the most famous. All members came back fine and The United States won the race to get people on the moon.
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This was another spacecraft flown in the Apollo Program and the second craft to land on the moon
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This was the first aircraft to land on the lunar highlands. This was the eight iteration of the Apollo Progtram.
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This was the 9th Apollo iteration and was mainly focused on scientific research.
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Accepting that American Niel Armstrong was the first man to step on the moon, tensions spiked and then fizzled out as there was no longer a use in racing one another.
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I think the impact of the space race was that America really solidified that they are superior to other countries while also making an enemy of Russia.
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I think the moon landing is real but the televised version is not. Plenty of evidence for the landing is there but the recordings have been proven frankly unreal.