The Space Race

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The Space Race

• Takashi Yoshii

Background (ASSA)
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What Happened?

• It began with Soviet Unions launching of the
  Sputnik Satellite.
• The United States who feared attack from space
  drew them into the Space Race trying to catch up
  to the Soviet Union.
• The Space Race was predominantly the space to the
  moon.
• The Space Race to the moon ended in July, 1969
  when Americans successfully set foot on the moon.
• "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap
  for mankind." - Neil Armstrong

Background (FreeImages)
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Mistrust/Miscommunication

• The Space Race clearly determines the mistrust
  and miscommunication between the US and the USSR.
• When the USSR launched Sputnik, the US did not
  trust them and feared future attack from space.
  (no communication was made to try and resolve
  this fear)
• The USSRs secretively engaged space missions may
  have been misinterpreted by the US.
• The US did not trust the USSR to dominate space.

Cartoon representing miscommunication between the
USA and the USSR
Background (FreeImages)
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Great Power Competition

• The Space Race became a symbol of competition
  between two Great Superpowers The USA and USSR.
• Success (in the Space Race) was marked by
  headline-making "firsts" the first satellite,
  first robotic spacecraft to the Moon, first man
  in space, first woman in space, first space
  walk. (Smithsonian)

Background Collision of 2 stars representing
conflict between US and USSR (Smart)
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Time Line of Related Events

• 1949 Nuclear Arms Race (Race between USA and
  USSR to arm themselves with nuclear weapons)
  begins
• 1957 October Soviet Satellite Sputnik launched
• 1958 January US Explorer 1 launched into space.
  
• 1958 October NASA (National Aeronautics and
  Space Administration) found.
• 1961 April First Man (Soviet) in Space (May for
  US)
• 1961 May 25 Kennedys goal to beat USSR to the
  moon
• 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
• 1965 March First Space Walk (June for US)
• 1969 July First Man on the Moon.

Background Image of the first astronauts to step
on the moon. (CNN)
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Key People
Allan Shepard during mission to put the first
American into space(Omega)

• Yuri Gagarin first man in space
• President Kennedy President of the United
  states. Made a goal to get to the moon before the
  USSR
• Alan Shepard First American In space
• Valentina Tereshkova First Women in space
• Aleksei Leonov First Person to Leave shuttle
• Neil Armstrong First man on moon

Crew on Apollo 11Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin,
and Michael Collins (Purdue News)
Background Image of Astronaut out of shuttle
(space walk) (Physicist)
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Works Cited

• ASSA Astronomical Society of South Australia.
  Arthur Beales. 1996-2004 Astronomical Society of
  South Australia, Inc. http//www.assa.org.au/galle
  ry/beales/ Visited 5.17.04
• CNN Cold War Space Race. Cold War Experience.
  http//www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/experience/te
  chnology/ Visited 5.17.04
• FreeImages Space http//www.freeimages.co.uk/galle
  ries/space/earth/ Visited 5.17.04
• Just Riddles and More! http//www.justriddlesandm
  ore.com/miscom.html Visited 5.17.04
• Nicholas M. Short, The Hubble Space Telescope
  Colliding Galaxies. http//www.fas.org/irp/imint/d
  ocs/rst/Sect20/A3.html visited 5.17.04
• Physicist, http//www.physicist.fsnet.co.uk/austro
  naut_sunview.jpg visited 5.17.04
• Purdue News http//news.uns.purdue.edu/UNS/html4ev
  er/9903.Armstrong.apollo.html Visited 5.17.04
• Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Space
  Race Racing to the moon. http//www.nasm.si.edu/ex
  hibitions/gal114/SpaceRace/sec300/sec310.htm
  visited 5.17.04
• Omega http//www.expeditionexchange.com/omega/inde
  xmain.htm Visited 5.17.04