Sputnik 1

The Space Race, brought many different inventions which are useful for many people in their daily life. The GPS was an invention the U.S. created after the pressure which the Soviet Union put on them after creating Sputnik 1. It was a great invention with good quality. At the beginning it was really hard to create this because there were only five satellites in the space, but now, it is easier to have better GPS due to the quantity of satellites there are in the space. GPS is an invention…

missile launched Sputnik” (History). This was the beginning of it all. The United States and the Soviet Union had an agreement that between 1957 and 1958 they would not launch anything, that year would be the International Geophysical Year, or (IGY). The Soviet saw this as a chance to get into space first, and they took it. “This crisis overshadowed…

impossible and launched Sputnik 1 to orbit Earth, this was a huge success. Sputnik 1 was a small, nearly useless satellite, but it had started the Space Race, and one of the biggest leaps for humanity. We have been nearly oblivious to what has happened in the space race, including why the race to the moon became big and fast at that, what other smaller successes were, and what the Apollo program was like. The Moon and the Space Race blew up around the mid 1900’s, but it wasn't just Sputnik that…

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 later, it was followed by Sputnik II, which carried the first space traveller, Laika the dog. Their launch caused a huge shock all around the world, but especially in…

October 4, 1957 is when Soviet Union [Russia] launched Sputnik 1, starting the Space Race. 10 years earlier the cold war started mainly with United States and Soviet Union. Because of that, the Americans were worried because of the technology that they could possibly use for military purposes other than exploration. The Americans were being left behind in technology. They created NASA to build rockets and satellites to compete with the Soviet Union. Then on May 25, 1961, President John F.…

again as they had with the Russians launching Sputnik. After the end of World War II, tensions were at an all…

Joseph Stalin, The Cold War, and the Positive Effects on the Modern World Oleksander Yaroslav was a member of the 80% of the population of Ukraine that owned farmland in the 1930’s. Oleksander had heard about the Russian grip tightening on his country in the mistaken fear that his fellow citizens of Ukraine were planning a secession from the USSR. Soon, men started coming to his door demanding that he remove himself from his property and turn his farmland over to the control of the Soviet…

into space called Sputnik 1. One month later on November 3, 1957 the Soviet Union launched Sputnik II while also carrying a dog named Laika which was also the first animal to go up in space. At this point into the space race the Soviet Union were way ahead of the United States. Which also brought more competition and tension into the space race. 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 Vostok 1. His…

A Critique of Diane Ravitch’s “Education in the Post Sputnik Era” On October 4th 1957 the Soviet’s launch the world’s first satellite called “Sputnik 1” ending the debate that the quality of education in America’s school system has been a concern. This event that the Russians beat the Americans sparked crisis in America’s education system. This crisis lead to restructuring the education system in English, History, Science, Mathematics, and foreign languages. While many programs were developed…

on space technology could be used to solve existing problems on Earth such as poverty. Conversely, space technology is the catalyst to form other technologies and innovations that are beneficial to our society. For example, the first satellite, 'Sputnik', used to study the orbital measurements of earth had provided new knowledge to develop satellites that are used for telecommunication, navigation…