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Why was congress willing to fund the space race?

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Russia was already launching and developing their space technology. This meant Russia would have the upper hand in a war. Because Russia and America took some of the Nazi's scientists after WW2, America funded the space race. Russia beated us to space, but we beat them to the moon.
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