Why did the american and soviet governments participate in the space race during the cold war?

a. since the end of world war ii, the world had grown more interested in peaceful displays of technology than in military achievement.

b. advances in rocketry were crucial to each country's ability to distribute resources to any part of the globe at a moment's notice.

c. each wanted to prove its technological strength by showing that it could make more advances in space than the other.

d. both governments worried that nazi germany might develop atomic weapons first, with disastrous results.