The Space Race was important to U.S history because of the significance of the battle between democratic society and totalitarian communism, because it brought an end to the Cold War, and because it led into further joint ventures between the United States and the Soviet Union (now Russia), including the first space station. (http://www.nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/gal114/gal114.htm))
This 18 year long race between the two nations for international superiority via space and the transportation needed to get there was seen as a new level of pressure put on the United States to come out on top.
The Soviet Union was putting us to a test of "cold war competition" in which they believed they had military and technological superiority over the United States. http://www.nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/gal114/SpaceRace/sec600/sec610.htm
They knew that if it could be proven to everyone that they were in the lead of the battle for the furthest advanced nation technologically, that more people would......
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