When cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space giving the red a huge victory against the United States. But Alan Shepard actually could have beaten the soviet had they decided not to test the launch missile more. Just like how the United States could have launched a missile before the Soviet Union whose October 1957 launch shocked America and set the race in motion. But the two losses didn’t stop America who put the first man on the moon in1969. Shortly after Gagarins success, President Kennedy asked his top advisors “what can we do to beat these guys” the conferred for a few weeks and came up with a moon landing(Wall). By the end of Apollo, the United States had spent 25 billion dollars, more than 100 billion dollars in today’s
