From its inception, the Space Race held the attention of people of all nations as the world’s superpowers flexed their post-war technological muscle in pursuit of science and brinkmanship. As resources from the government poured into the study and eventual exploration of space, space agencies collaborated on projects of grand importance at a cost unimaginable to the average citizen. The assembly of the country’s greatest scientific minds led to rockets capable of leaving the atmosphere and the birth of
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