Who won the space race? - Jeff Steers
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On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched the satellite Sputnik and, with it, an international space race. The United States and the Soviet Union rushed to declare dominance of space for 18 years, until the two countries agreed to a more collaborative model. The real winner? Science. Jeff Steers describes the history -- and the benefits -- of the space race.
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Why is the space program so important?
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Leonel bufi
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Becouse it makes things easy for humans and make comunication easy.also we can se forecasts and make maps of all over the world
Zixun (Dandy) Zhou
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it makes technology better and it makes things we use daily
진현 양
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It can be another job that student want to be, so it can be used to enhance education. It also can improve techinology through competition among many contries.
연준 김
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Space program is important because reseaechers may find new technology, or the technology used in the space program may make out lives better.
지수 이
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The technic, when the people use to make the rocket, is useful for our lives.
Dylen Mullis
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in response to Chris Beger Show comment
yup
mekhi davis
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cause with enough technology coming from space programs you can operate more in the real world.
Sebasthian Rios
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without the space program we could have not nothing
Brenda Lee
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Many technological advances and ideas were because of the space program.
Alexander Duvall
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space programs are so important because so we can learn more about what's around us and be able to figure out how space can help us.