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Question 7 • ARC English 10 Semester 2 CR/Summer

Which statement is false?

Answer

Walter Cronkite supported the space program in the United States by reporting on the events regularly in his broadcasts.

The Space Race against the Soviets united Americans toward a common goal during a period of much civil unrest.

Live television coverage brought the news into people’s homes in a far more graphic and realistic way than they had ever experienced with print news.

NASA’s astronauts were shielded from the public eye, and no one really knew much about them.

Explanation

Astronauts were highly visible public figures, celebrated in news coverage and promoted as heroes of the Space Race. So the claim that NASA shielded them from public view and that people knew little about them is false. Walter Cronkite regularly covered the space program, and television brought dramatic events into viewers’ homes in real time.

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