What effect did the cold war have on space exploration

It made the United States work harder to be farther than the Soviet Union in the Space Race

the answer to fill in the blank in this question would be the word resource, it is defined as the money, material or people (since human resource is a very valuable good) that a company or a person has at disposition (meaning they can use the resource as they see fit), to be able to complete a task or achieve a goal.  

he sent troops to protect the students as they entered the school.