Why did the Soviet Union and the United States take part in the space race in the early 1960s? *
to show that exploration of the universe was possible through cooperation
O to prove that one form of government was superior to the other
to find new and improved ways to develop long and short-ranged missiles
to take attention away from the Cold War and issues related to it.

During the Cold War the United States and the Soviet Union engaged in a competition to see who had the best technology in space. The Space Race was considered important because it showed the world which country had the best science, technology, and economic system.

so its to prove that one form of government was superior to the other

the ss was the main organization responsible for the genocidal murder of around six million people of european ethnic minorities, essentially jews, in the holocaust. the members of all its branches committed war crimes and crimes against humanity during the second world war (1939-1945). likewise, the ss were involved in commercial enterprises and exploited the inmates of the concentration camps as slave laborers.

the tortures and assassinations committed by the ss were the result of an ideology developed long before the armed conflict, this ideology was based on the racial supremacy of the germans over the rest.