False
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Because a science-based understanding of our universe is, more than other (myth-based or religious-base) understandings, capable of delivering (1) measuring instruments by means of which we can test our hypotheses regarding the structure of the universe and (2) a scientific language that is as much as possible free from ambiguity and vagueness.
True. The Soviets
were the first to send unmanned satellites then rockets that had animals in
it. The U.S. in response funded space
projects and gave additional support to NASA.
It also promoted scientific studies in school as part of their campaign
to gain supremacy in the space race.
The Greeks coined the word astronomy and contributed early work in this dispute.