The space race was an important time in history, for the U.S, USSR, and the rest of the world. Soon after World War II, the Soviet Union and United States began a global battle, communism against democracy. Space became a huge entity in the "war." Each side spend billions on besting each other's achievements in what later became known as the famous "Space Race."
The Cold War was the United States capitalists, versus the Soviet communists. It wasn't an actual war, but more of a grudge, because there wasn't any real fighting going on. It began in the late 1950's, after World War II. The "war" ended after the Berlin Wall was torn down, and the USSR fell in 1991. Although they hated each other, both powers had a mutual enemy, NAZI Germany. They even worked together in World War II. They only did so because President Roosevelt just wanted to end the war as quickly as possible. He's quoted on saying that he "hates war" (Peters).
On October 4, 1957 Sputnik I was launched by the Soviet Union. It was the world's first artificial satellite, about the size of a beach ball. The launch marked the start of the "Space Race" (Garber). On November 3, 1957 Sputnik II was launched. It was the first satellite to carry a living animal, a dog named Laika (russianspaceweb.com), A.K.A. "Mutnik" (Space Race:Cold War Front). This shocked the world even more than Sputnik I. There are believed to have been forty one total Sputniks made, but only twenty five launched (Sputnik 1957-1963). Shortly after Sputnik II, the United States launched Explorer I, which led to the discovery of the Van Allen radiation belt (Timeline of Space Exploration). This was much better than the first attempt to launch a satellite of their own, which went "kaputnik". The Soviets late...
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...ing, Neil Armstrong called out (That's one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind." The funny thing is, he flubbed his line as he was actually supposed to say "That's one small step for a man; one giant leap for mankind." The article "a" makes a big difference, and with over half a billion people watching his "moonwalk", he messed up on a big stage.
The race originally started when the USSR launched Sputnik I, which sparked the race. JFK made his claim, and it had begun. The United States made NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Agency, and started on Project Apollo. After a lot of hard work, and mishaps, the United States were able to prevail, and launched Apollo 11, the first manned mission to ever land on the moon. The total cost of the Apollo project: more than twenty four billion dollars. Bragging rights won by getting to the moon first: priceless.
"One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind," said by Neil Armstrong as he took his first steps on the moon during the NASA Apollo 11 expedition to the moon. No man has ever been to the moon before and NASA, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, was the first to get someone to land on the moon. NASA has had many great accomplishments in exploring the "new frontier" that have affected the United States ever since it was first created in July 1958. The idea for NASA first started when the Soviet Union launched the first satellite on October 4, 1957. United States started up its own space travel program and started to work on its own projects that would be better in than the Soviet Union's. This all started the great space race. It was a big race between the Soviet Union and the United States to see who could learn and discover the most. The United States and Soviet Union started building and sending satellites and space ships. Then they tried to see who could make a suit and ship that would be able to allow a living thing to go up in space. They tested out all of the equipment with monkeys and dogs, seeing what would work. Many animals did die in the process but by the results of their testing they were able to build suits and ships that allow human beings to go up in space. Even though they were able to create these machines, that doesn't mean that they didn't have their difficulties and dangers. Two space shuttles were crashed or blown up. There were many key factors that they had learned to fix that resulted in the crashing of those ships. They have made many discoveries and accomplishments like having the first astronauts walk on the moon.
These rivalries would become clear when two countries competed in the space race, a competition between the U.S. and the Soviet Union concerning achievements in the field of space exploration. The Soviet’s took the early lead as they put the first satellite, Sputnik 1, into space. The launch of Sputnik 1 established a sense of fear in the American public, resulting in the creation of NASA in the late 1950’s. This opened the door for space exploration today and for future generations. After World War II, the Cold War created tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States leading to extreme national pride and competition, culminating in the space race which began with the launch of Sputnik 1.
The Cold War was a post-World War II struggle between the United States. and its allies and the group of nations led by the Soviet Union. Direct military conflict did not occur between the two superpowers, but intense economic and diplomatic struggles erupted in the country. Different interests led to mutual suspicion and hostility in a rising philosophy. The United States played a major role in the ending of the Cold War.
July 21, 1969. American astronaut Neil Armstrong, radios to earth: “Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.” The control room in Houston, Texas bursts with cheering and applause. Kennedy’s Project Apollo put America in the lead in the Space Race. The Space Race between the Soviet Union and the United States was a very big deal. The Apollo Program worked towards establishing the technology to meet other national interests in space, develop man’s capability to work in the lunar environment, and to promote nationalism and achieve preeminence in space for the United States.
However before this event happened the “race to space” was initiated on October 4, 1957. However, before America launched people to space the Soviet Union was leaving us in the dust with the launch of Sputnik.
After World War II both the United States and the Soviet Union realized how important rocket research would be to the military. So they each hired the top rocket scientists from Germany to help with their research. After they hired them both sides were making a lot of progress. The Space Race began in 1955 when the Americans announced that they would start launching satellites into orbit. The Soviets took the US announcement as a challenge and established a group whose goal was to beat the US in putting a satellite into orbit. Even though the United States started the competition the Soviets still won because they launched the first successful satellite into orbit, put a dog into outer space and also put the first man into outer space. Some might say that the United States won because they put the first man on the moon, which was a huge feat made by the Americans. So for winning many missions against the U.S. the Soviets won the Space Race.
How has the Space Race brought about international cooperation not just between Russia and the U.S., but also other countries from around the world? In the 1950’s the space race started and there was a huge amount of competition for space and spaceflight between the USSR and the U.S. but as time when on that slowly changed and we started helping each other and helping other countries and allowing them to help up. Now in current time there is an international cooperation between countries when it comes to space.
The Cold War was an argument between the Soviet Union and the United States of America after WWII. During WWII the USA and the Soviet Union were allies fighting a common cause; Adolph Hitler who was attempting to overthrow the surrounding countries. Although the USA and the Soviet Union were allies, the relationship between the two countries was very tense (What Was). Neither country trusted the other.
On May 25, 1961, just two weeks after the US had successfully got an American into space, John F. Kennedy gave a speech addressing it and exclaimed, "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth. No single space project...will be more exciting, or more impressive to mankind, or more important...and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish..." (Kruse). The Space Race became an important event for all of humanity during the 20th century because it improved our knowledge of space, improved and inspired new technology, and improved our education. It sparked a mix of both friendly and non friendly competition between the Capitalist United States and the Communist Russia (USSR) from the launch of Sputnik in 1957, all the way to the Apollo-Soyuz project that ended the race in 1975 .
Early on in the race, the USSR was very successful. In 1957, the Soviets launched Sputnik, which triggered the start of the space race (John F. Kennedy). The United States began to scramble, trying to catch up with the Soviets. However, soon after, the Soviet Union completed another huge success. They sent the first man to orbit Earth (John F. Kennedy). In 1961 the USSR’s Yuri Gagarin became the first human to ever orbit the Earth (John F. Kennedy). The United States was still unsuccessful and beginning to look weak. After that, America got serious. On May 25, 1961, President Kennedy asked Congress for around eight billion dollars to build up the space program over the next five years (John F. Kennedy). The president declared, “This nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before the decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth” (John F. Kennedy).
The Space race has impacted every aspect of our modern lives. To start with it made the American public who at the end of the war were not interested in space look at Math and Science with respect.
The Sputnik 1 was the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth. It was an aluminum sphere, 58 cm (23 in) in diameter, weighing 83 kg (184 lb). Its orbited around the earth lasted 96.2 minutes. At the end of 57 days the satellite returned to earth's atmosphere and was destroyed by aerodynamic frictional heat.
The Cold War pushed many American companies to new limits, to prove that the U.S. was far superior to the U.S.S.R. The Space Race had produced new companies, new technological advances in space and brought national pride. On July 29, 1958 congress had established the “National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), a federal agency dedicated to space exploration” (History 1). NASA was the first space program created by the United States NASA was able to help the U.S. expand technology to new areas, such as creating the satellite, which is a well-used piece of machinery that is used. The first satellite ever launched by the U.S. was Tiros 1. Tiros 1 was Cylinder like machine that was able to take photos of earth from space and transmit them back to earth. Satellites today are used for telephone communication, T.V. channels and our every weather report. The space race “was seen as the next frontier”(History 1). The Space Race had inspired car designers in new designs, inspired easy flying transportation, and effect the c...
It began in the 1945-1948 timeframe and ended in 1989, having been a dispute over the division of Europe. By another account, the Cold War began in 1917 with the Bolshevik Revolution, and ended in 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union, having been a conflict between Bolshevism and Democracy. The Cold war got its name because both sides were afraid of fighting each other in such a “hot war”, nuclear weapons might destroy everything. So, instead they fought each other indirectly. They played havoc with conflicts in different parts of the world. They used words as weapons. They threatened and denounced each other, or the two countries tried to make each other look foolish.
The Space Race was very beneficial to the world because not only did it improve technology it also improved education. In 1963 the U.S had a congressional mandate that increased investment in the education of science and math and they did this because they wanted to increase the basic knowledge of some fields of science. In just a few years it had created a huge advancement in the understanding of the Sun, Earth, nearby space, electronics, energy sources, and collecting data. The success of Sputnik I gave most Americans a wake up call. Parents started making their kids take higher science classes and instead of a giving toy cars they gave their kids chemistry sets.. The baby boom families started to buy educational toys like telescopes and microscopes.