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ESSENTIAL QUESTION
How does the space race relate to the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union?
• The Space Race was a 20th century competition between the United States and the Soviet Union for supremacy in spaceflight capability.
• Remember….Everything during the Cold War was a competition between the United States and the Soviet Union.
• How and why?
WHAT EXACTLY WAS THE SPACE RACE
• The space race had its roots in military and scientific uses.
• Before Sputnik was launched, the United States and Soviet Union had plans for having spy satellites.
WHY EVEN CARE ABOUT OUTER SPACE?!
• October 4, 1957- Soviet scientists launched the world’s first space satellite- SPUTNIK.
• How did Americans feel?!
• Surprised and Frightened.
• Why?
• Soviet Union had nuclear weapons and could put a satellite orbiting in space.
WHEN DID IT START?
• April 12th, 1961- Soviet Union launches the first spacecraft into orbit- VOSTOK
• Soviet Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel into space.
• Soviet Union now has successfully launched the first satellite and spacecraft.
SOVIET UNION WINNING THE SPACE RACE
• President John F. Kennedy promised that the United States would have a man on the moon before the 1960s were over.
• Invested billions of dollars into the space program.
THE UNITED STATES REACTS
• May 5th- 1961 Alan B. Shepard becomes the first American in space.
• About one month after Yuri Gagarin orbits the earth.
AMERICANS GAIN SOME GROUND
• February 20th, 1962- John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth.
ORBITING THE EARTH- MERICAN STYLE
• Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin become the first men to walk on the Moon while Pilot Michael Collins orbits around the Moon.
• “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”
• https://youtu.be/_3vVjyqkwrw
JULY 20TH 1969
• Fueled hostilities between the United States and the Soviet Union…
• The rush to technology also led to many deaths….
• January 27th, 1967- Three astronauts of Apollo 1 die in a fire during a ground test.
DID THE SPACE RACE COST ANYTHING?