30+ What Started The Space Race Pictures. China, japan, and india have sent probes to the moon and out into the solar system in the quest for the prestige that space brings. Well apollo wanted to go see if there is any live on the moon or any other planets so he became famous so other people wanted to go to the moon too to become famous so thats what started space race.
This was the start of a long relationship between the lovell telescope, jodrell bank and the space race.
The story really starts in the aftermath of world war 2 when the us and the ussr each grabbed half of the german rocket program and launched vigorous rocket programs of their own. Men (and chimps) orbit earth. Although the soviet union had a very strong start, launching the first satellite and the first human into space, the us eventually triumphed in the long run, landing the. Prelude to the space race.
