Space Race

“We choose to go to the moon in this decade” (Kennedy qtd in Space Race). On July 20th, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin landed on the moon. (Race to the Moon). The accomplishments of landing on the moon, building bomb shelters, and passing education acts all contributed to the idea that America, as a whole, reacted in many different ways. Fear, excitement, happiness, and relief all shined through the dark smoky clouds of the space race. Although the Soviet Union continually surpassed the U.S. in the early stages of the space race, the U.S. used careful tactics and eventually pulled ahead and achieved the main goal: landing on the moon. By 1972, the space race had become the most expensive peacetime national effort in U.S. history. America…

Steaming from the Cold War, two of the world superpowers were in a technological battle with each other. As nuclear bombs started to be developed, both the United States and Soviet Union needed an advantage such as where to launch these bombs or ways to launch them from space to their target. No nation on Earth had developed a technological device to do such a complicated task. Right as the cold war faded in the past only the future was looked upon. Beginning on October 7th 1957 we officially…

The space race was a competition between the Soviet Union and the United States of America to see who could go to the moon first. The need for space exploration came out of the cold war between the Soviet Union and The United States of America. The cold war started after world war two around the late 1950’s, it was mainly about the capitalist world against the communist world of Russia (The Space Race). The space race brought great technological advances in the world between the Soviet Union…

between the democratic, capitalism United States and the communist Soviet Union. It was called the “cold” war because there was no actual armed battle that occurred. Both superpowers competed to the journey to space, This is called the space race. Although the space race began in the late 1940’s during the cold war period between the United States and the Soviet Union, it continues to have a large…

The Space Race The great space race started in the early 1950s. There were two sides, the democratic capitalists of the US, and the communists of the Soviet Union. The idea of space travel sparked a race to see who could get into space first. B both wanted to prove that their military and technology was better. October 4th, 1957, the Soviets launched Sputnik, the world’s first artificial satellite to be in Earth’s orbit. It was seen as the new frontier in the technology of space travel. In…

The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals and the world’s great powers–the democratic, capitalist United States and the communist Soviet Union for proving the superiority of its technology and capability in spaceflight. The space race started when the Soviet union launched Sputnik which was the world’s first artificial satellite and the first man-made object to be placed into the Earth’s orbit in October 1957. Sputnik’s launch came as a surprise. A month…

Positive Impacts of The Space Race Following World War II, tensions between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. rose dramatically. These tensions eventually caused the Cold War, a war that did not contain any actual combat between the two countries, but contained U.S. foreign involvement to contain communism, an arms race, and the space race (“Cold War History”). The space race is defined as the period of time in the 50s and 60s where the U.S. and Soviets competed technologically to be the first to get a…

The Space Race occurred after the Cold War, which brought up past rivalries between the Soviet Union and the United States. The improvements made during the race were not for science, but to show superiority between the United States and the Soviet Union. They tried to up-one another; this grows tensions between them just as the Cold War did. “On October 4, 1957, a Soviet R-7 intercontinental ballistic missile launched Sputnik” (History). This was the beginning of it all. The United States and…

The Space Race was a “competition” between the US and Soviets in space exploration and technology that lasted from 1957-1975. This race to space occurred during the midst of the Cold War and served as a way for the superior country to flex their muscles by reaching space faster and developing more advanced technologies. Space technologies could easily have military applications such as satellites and monitoring, and it was important for these countries to gain backing and pride in order to help…

Did you know that Yuri Gagarin, the first man to enter space, died at the age of 34 in a plane crash in 1968? Gagarin was an astronaut of the Soviet Union, also known as the USSR. In April of 1961, aboard the Vostok 1, Gagarin earned his place in the history books by being the first man to enter space. However, a few years before this in August of 1957, history is was also made when the USSR successfully developed a sufficient space launch vehicle in the form of the R7 Semyorka. Thus, the space…