During this time the Cold War started to change its focus from a mostly Arms Race to one that focused on space exploration. After the successful landing on the moon by the United States and the Soviet Union first launch of a super-heavy rocket booster. The Soviet Union had started to intensify their own space efforts years earlier with the collaboration of Sergei Pavlovich Korolev and Vladimir Chelomey but it was not until 1969 that there was a major budgetary change. The Nixon Administration out of fear of a all-out Soviet space effort would leave the United States behind, started to call on congress to increase America's space budget.
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