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Khan Academy: The Start of the Space Race

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Looks at the USSR's launch of Sputnik and the galvanizing effect it had on America's motivation to fund aerospace research. NASA was soon formed and more funding was put in place for public education in the sciences and math.

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sputnik

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inter-continental ballistic missiles, missile gap, cold war competition, icbms, jet propulsion laboratory, national defense education act, creation of national aeronautics and space administration (nasa), space program

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Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
The intended use for this resource is Instructional|practice

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