Race to Space

http://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/JFK-in-History/Space-Program.aspx
In the article about the space program its talks about how in our history we were in a race to space with our communist rival the soviet union. The soviet union was the first to launch a satellite in 1957 which was sputnik and that was when America started worrying and began to fund money for the space program. But in 1961 America was even more shocked because the soviet union was the first to send a soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gargarin to orbit the earth in outer space. JFK knew he had to raise America's confidence again and told to spend $7- $9 billion to the space program. I believe that outer space is a place of never ending exploration so there is never a limit to what you can find in the universe.