Answer:
So if I remember correctly, the space race was like the arms race. Russia vs USA.
During the cold war (As we all know, fighting wasn't happening except in words. And threats as every 5yr old does today.)
Anyway the space race, was a race to put the first man on the moon, Russia succeeded, then the US. First it was rovers, then solar panels, then Ships. The space race during the cold war was trying to challenge the opposing country.
Explanation:
Basiccaly cat vs dog, or life vs death. But no death or cat vs dogs, was happening here. Just a race to get to space first. In the cold war, opponents were racing to get new technology done, because without advanced tech, how would you get to the moon, and no the moon isnt cheese sadly.
Russia had some advancements already and USA saw that Russia was doing better, so they rushed to put the man on the moon and succeeded, Russia didn't until later.
The space race was a race and a rush of doing one thing first than the other, like a race, but for space. Thus the name space race. Space as we know, is space, the place that holds thousands of universes together and that includes our planet earth.
