Alexey Leonov

Section 1: Identification and evaluation of sources This investigation will explore the question: How did the US win the space race, and its impact on Modern Technology? The years 1945 to 1975 are the main area of focus in this investigation, as these years caused the build up to the space race. This investigation will compare the attitude and implementation approch between the two players –USA and USSR. Sources : 1. “Atlas of Space Exploration” written by Roger D. Launius and Andrew K. Johnston. The origin of this source is valuable, since Roger D Launis is a senior curator in the division of Space History at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. This was a valuable source since Launis has an in depth knowledge of the Space Race as he worked at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum as a museum curator. Andrew K. Johnston is a geographer at the Center for Earth and Planetary Studies which is part of research department of the National Air and Space Museum. Johnston has published many books such as “Earth from Space”, “Time and Navigation” and “Smithsonian: Atlas of Space Exploration. Even though the “Smithsonian: Atlas of Space Exploration” was published in 2009, it’s still a valuable source of information as both authors have an extensive knowledge of the space race. A limitation that comes with these books is that they were written by two US Space researchers. As such there may be a bias since they may not have had access to all soviet information.…

Later in 1965 the first space walks was done by Alexey Leonov and Ed White but they could not be out in space for so long.The most famous space suits are the ones worn by Apollo astronauts during the first spacewalk on the moon. These suits were used between 1968 and 1975. The initial suits had 6 hours of life support but later they carried more water and oxygen. In modern spacesuits american assonants have used the space shuttle EMU(Extravehicular Mobility Unit) since 1982. Mann.A(2010) has…

They all believed that whoever won this battle, won the space race. To achieve their goal to land a man on the moon, they must come up with a solution to dramatically improve the power of engines on the rocket. Both of them understand that engines played a key role in this battle. The question was, how could they make it happen. Von Braun was lucky that he got President Kennedy’s support——NASA had been allocated “a further 5 billion dollars to spearhead its conquest of space” in 1965. On the…