Sputnik 1

History of Space Exploration, n.d). Russia started the space race when they launched the first satellite ever into space, Sputnik. The technological advancements that Sputnik 1 made was to be able to transmit data and fly at such a low orbit. Sputnik paved the way for many new techniques that are common today such as meteor detection and radio transmissions (Sputnik 1, n.d). Sputnik not only spurred space technologies, it also directly caused the United States to…

launch of Sputnik 1 on October 4 1957. The launch was a shock to all Americans which put them under a lot of pressure. The Americans feared that if the USSR were able to launch satellites then they would be able to launch missile attacks as well. Sputnik 1 changed the world of technology and science forever. It inspired many people to study engineering and was used to develop the USSR military and government. On January 31st 1958, The United states launched their first satellite named Explorer 1…

At the start of the 1960s, the end of world war 1 had passed. the calculator, artificial heart, and the first moon landing were all major attributions of the decade. The 1960s yielded many major technological advances from previous years. But with the changes, came dangers. Some of the major events of the 1960s were : JFK to win the presidency, The Peace corps is established, kennedy is assassinated, and man lands on the moon. Many more historical American events were to develop in the mid to…

sent to the outer solar system. This is the closest approach to Jupiter that has even been made (http://www.greatachievements.org/?id=3642). 1965 NASA decides it wants to get a closer look at Mars so it launches two Mars space probes. In 1977 Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are launched and sent to Jupiter and Saturn. In 1981 NASA made yet another breakthrough when it launched the space shuttle Columbia. This was the first shuttle to use both liquid and solid fuel.…

The Space Race began with the launch of Sputnik, and from then on it did nothing but heat up. The launch of Sputnik did give the Soviets a lead, but The U.S. quickly answered back with the expedited launch of their satellite, the Explorer 1. Now that the U.S. had realized that they were behind, they began making major strides in the field of space exploration. The first change that thy made was creating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and immediately after creating the…

Soviet Union launched their first orbital satellite, Sputnik. Sputnik was a huge win for the Soviet Union, it meant that they were able to successfully launch a spacecraft and keep it from malfunctioning before it completed its mission. “The Soviet Union had announced it had won the race into space by launching an earth satellite, a 184 pound, 22 inch globe now orbiting the Earth at 18,000 560 ft up” (Greene, para 2). After the Launch of Sputnik, Dwight D Eisenhower was accused of slowing down…

During the month of April, Soviet astronaut ______________ 1 1. "Cold War." History.com. Accessed March 16, 2016. http://www.history.com/topics/spacerace. 2. "The Cold War Museum." Cold War Museum. Accessed March 16, 2016. http:// www.coldwar.org/articles/60s/index.asp. 1 2 Yuri Gagarin became the first person to orbit the earth. Gagarin orbited the earth in the Vostok I, a small capsule-like space ship. Just one…

became the first human in space. In 1961, he orbited Earth aboard the Vostok 1 space capsule, the first-ever crewed spacecraft.”(Rebecca Sohn 2024). This quote means that the Soviets got a head start in going to space with the first human-crewed spacecraft and the first piglet and first human in space. A second quote from the text states, “Yuri Gagarin from the Soviet Union was the first human in space. His vehicle, Vostok 1 circled Earth at a speed of 27,400 kilometers per hour with the flight…

about the space race. The second paragh is going to be about the cold war. The third paragh is going to be about the race of being better at sports. The space race was between 1957-1975.They also beat the U.S.A to sending with the orbiting of Sputnik 1. The Sputnik was an artificial satellite that was sent into space in October 4. 1957. This is how the space race had started. The Soviet Union was…

agency that was spawned from these motivations was non-other than NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Agency). Many would argue that this bureau was developed in direct correlation to the Soviet’s launch of the world’s first artificial satellite, Sputnik. Advancements in a myriad of other scientific fields ensued as the USSR furthered its quest to put Man into space as well. Without the Soviets taking the initiative to broaden their horizons to the final frontier, the United States in all…