As the United States prepares to wind down its shuttle program, the race for who can become the most prominent space power is on.
Speaking at the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 15, United States President Barack Obama told an audience of NASA staff, politicians, astronauts and business leaders, “More than half a century ago, far from the Space Coast, in a remote and desolate region of what is now called Kazakhstan…the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth, which was little more than a few pieces of metal with a transmitter and a battery strapped to the top of a missile. But the world was stunned. Americans were dumbfounded. The Soviets, it was perceived, had taken the lead in a race for which we were not yet fully prepared.
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