Both USA, USSR and other states spent absolute fortunes on space Research and technology. Space technology has lots of applications on earth. So not only did the space race create jobs in actuall research and development, it also created jobs in the manufacturing of new technologies.
All around the world countries were spending hundreds of millions or billions in weapons research and development as well as manufacturing. This led to the creation of hundreds of thousands of jobs and as this was the Cold War there was constant demand.
governments of both the USSR and the usa invested millions into other economies around the world creating a strong g economy. They did this to prop up governments, keep support high, and keep the economies strong.
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