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Dwight Eisenhower was the President of the United States when the first satellites went into space. However, it was John F. Kennedy that challenged the rest of the world by stating the US would put a man on the moon in less than 10 years. That was the beginning of the space race.

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President Dwight D. Eisenhower initiated the space race by establishing NASA in 1958 in response to the Soviet Union's successful launch of Sputnik in 1957.

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