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Question 2 • ARC English 10 Semester 2 CR/Summer

Which statement is false?

Answer

Walter Cronkite’s enthusiastic coverage of the Space Race helped promote the program to the American public.

The media’s approach to covering space exploration during the 1960s was to tell the story and focus on the people behind the science.

Live television media coverage had a profound impact on how the Apollo 11 Moon landing was experienced by people throughout the world.

The social context of the 1960s discouraged innovation and exploration because people were afraid of new technologies and feared being overrun by space aliens.

Explanation

The false statement is D. The 1960s saw major technological innovation and public interest in space exploration, especially amid the U.S.–Soviet Space Race. Although people had concerns about new technologies and science fiction sometimes featured aliens, those fears did not define the era or discourage exploration in the way the statement claims.

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