The Soviet Union sent the first manmade satellite called “Sputnik 1” and this launch in 1957 (Yuri Gagarin: First Man in Space). The Soviet Union also sent the first man to space whose name is “Yuri Gagarin” and he flew for “eight minutes” in orbital flight in the “Vostok 1” which launched at 9:07 in the morning (Yuri Gagarin: First Man in Space). In retaliation to the Soviet union the United States of America sent “Alan Shepard” in the “Freedom 7” in 1961 (Freedom 7 MR-3).The “Freedom 7” took off
In 1961, during the height of the space race, the Soviet Union became the first nation to launch a man, Yuri Gagarin, into space. This was monumental for the Soviet Union at the time because it propelled them ahead of the United States in the space race. However, there is a conspiracy theory that the Soviet Union launched other humans into space, but they unfortunately failed their mission or met a fatal end. This conspiracy theory is known as the Lost Cosmonauts, or Phantom Cosmonauts. This conspiracy
The Vostok Program The Vostok Space Program, launched by the USSR during the Cold War, was a huge breakthrough in the field of astronautics. This program managed to launch the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin, which left Americans speechless. The Russians’ achievements provoked America to start keeping up with them. The Russians’ and the Americans’ struggle to be the most technologically advanced nation in the world is known as the Space Race. As a consequence of their race, many inventions and
September 2, 1945, the two most powerful nations in the world broke into a war of pride and power, known as the Cold War. The Soviet Union and the United States battled fiercely for a reputation that would be venerated for ages to come. Aggressively, these two nations pushed to be the greatest in the world through politics, weapons, and science. These actions and attitudes significantly promoted the need for space exploration, and soon fueled a pursuit that altered history forever. The space race
“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” It was July 20 1969, the day that reshaped our nation and gave us unparalleled dreams for the future. The impact of the day goes far beyond our pride and nationalism; that day would change space exploration and technology forever. Just like a shooting star, that day would give us a glimpse of hope. A chance to see an event so breathtaking and defying, it would be man’s greatest accomplishment in the 20th century. As millions of people watched
The Space Race NASA National Aeronautics & Space Administration, also known as NASA. NASA is the American agency for aeronautics and aerospace research, and it was established in 1958 by the former President Dwight David Eisenhower. NASA´s purpose was the explore space in a peaceful and none military way, and the agency was operational on October 1, 1958. Before 1958 NASA was named NACA, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Since the moon landing in 1972 NASA has not launched any major space
After World War II, the capitalist U.S. and the communist U.S.S.R. developed a long period of tension and rivalry, commonly referred to as “The Cold War.” In our history class we learned that this rivalry led to a competition in space between the two superpowers to prove which one had the best economic system, military, science, and technology. This competition became known as “The Space Race.” It all started on October 4, 1957, when the U.S.S.R. launched Sputnik 1 into space. The Sputnik (“traveler”
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
Following the conclusion of World War II, two countries that once stood as allies found themselves on the brink of war with each other. America and the Soviet Union were divided by politics and ideology, “…capitalism versus communism - each held with almost religious conviction, formed the basis of an international power struggle with both sides vying for dominance, exploiting every opportunity for expansion anywhere in the world” (Trueman, 2014). History would define this battle as the Cold War
Stagnation Era was a period of time when the economic and political development was not going any further. The period started in 1964 during the rule of Leonid Brezhnev and ended with Mikhail Gorbachev’s glasnost and perestroika policies, which led to the Revolution of 1989 and finally to the collapse of the Soviet Union. The time period can be described as wastfulness. The term “Era of Stagnation” itself was born when Mikhail Gorbachev blamed Leonid Brezhnev for the economic issues that appeared
International law encompasses many aspects that seek to regulate the behavior among states during both times of war and peace. When a state proceeds to act outside of the set of international norms, the international community may act in a multitude of ways from one extreme to the other. This is what the world saw with the downing of a civilian flight in 1983. On September 1, 1983, Korean Airlines Flight 007 was on its last leg of a flight from New York City to Seoul, South Korea. At some point during
Differences and Similarities Between Reagan and Gorbachev The Cold War, which started sometime in the 1940’s, was a large quarrel between the United States and the Soviet Union. This dispute involved a lot of propaganda and threats of nuclear warfare. Despite all of the trouble though, after over forty years of fighting, the two leaders of these countries (Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev) would finally work out a solution. However, although they did reach an agreement, there were many differences
The Space Race was a race to space between the Soviet and the US from the year 1957 to 1975. The Space Race was in the cold war, With all of the moves that the Soviet and the US were pulling. There had to be so many amazing achievements. Some of the most important and main achievements was the first man to ever get into space. Also on a mission the Soviets also sent up a dog, Which was the first animal in space but sadly died painlessly due to stress and low earth orbit. Also another huge achievement
engineer and scientist, was displeased. He wished to test out more rockets before launching humans (Kuhn 33). On 12 April 1961, Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut, was launched into space. The American media triumphed over his success, with notably The Huntsville Times reporting the news with the headlines “Praise is Heaped on Major Gagarin” on the center of its front page (“Yuri Gagarin: First Man in
1961, Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet cosmonaut, became the first person to orbit Earth. He achieved this in a capsule-like spacecraft called the Vostok 1. The USA’s effort to send a human into space was called Project Mercury. The NASA scientists had created a different design of spacecraft for the trip, one with a smaller, more cone-shaped capsule that was lighter than the Vostok 1. On May 5th, 1961, Alan Shepard went into space, earning the title of first American in space. He, unlike Yuri Gagarin, did
scientist Wernher Von Braun. In that same year, President Eisenhower signed a public order to create NASA, which stands for National Aeronautics and Space Administration. In 1959 soviets launched Luna 2, the first probe to hit the moon. This is when Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit earth in his spacecraft. Because of this, NASA decided to send a human into space too and called it project mercury. They started out by launching monkeys in small rockets. In 1962 President Kennedy said they would
The Space Race was a competition between the Soviet Union and the United States of America for technology on space that happened from 1955-1972. This competition caused many amazing things: The first object in space, the first man in space, and the first man on the moon. The Space Race had started in the Cold War, an Arms’ Race between the U. S and the USSR. Although the two countries never said that The Space Race was a competition, everyone knew it was because the two countries were already competing
or passed it and took photographs of the hidden far side, relaying them back to Earth. The first man to travel to space was Yuri Gagarin. History was made on April 12, 1961, when he successfully orbited the earth in the Votsok 1. His flight lasted one hour and 48 minutes and as he circled the earth, his speed was about 17,000 mph on the Votsok 1. Following this mission, Gagarin was killed in a test airplane crash . Neil Armstrong was the first person to ever land on the moon. Born in Wapakoneta, Ohio
On April 12th of 1961, Russia became the first nation to send a man named Alexeyevich Gagarin to space, aboard the Vostok I space shuttle. It was one of the several controversial attempts that had been deemed to fail to get a man into space (Wisnewski 60). The other well-known attempt being by cosmonaut Vladimir Ilyushin in 1957. During his journey, the craft developed mechanical faults and crash-landed in China. The Soviet State indeed conquered the feat to send the first man into space, thus thwarting
Satellites were a very important part of the Space Race and are still very important today. There are different functions for each satellite. Some are for television networks while others can save lives and predict the weather. Satellites are used every day to help with navigation and positioning systems. Over two thousand five hundred satellites have been sent into space and around one thousand are still operational. NASA, during the Space Race, was responsible for creating complex software