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Explain how the Space Race was an extension of the Cold War.

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As the cold war was between the U.S. and Russia, this ties into the Space Race because both countries were trying to see who could get to space first, it ended up being Russia with their Sputnik, but the U.S. got to the moon first in 1969.

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