Yuri Gagarin

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr. was a man of many flaws and accomplishments. He was prestigious because he stood for our country and he stood for justice. Although he was shot and killed November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. His integrity and passion for justice still lives on today. Before he served as the 35th president, he served a few years in the United States House of Representatives and in the United States Senate. John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr. has goals for America by becoming president of the…

Moon exploration could be all but marveled until October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union did the 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…

impossible and far away from reality, but that dream became true. After many failures and mistakes humans were able to travel to space, as it is described by The Aerospace Corporation (n.d.) “Russian Lt. Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit Earth in Vostok 1. His flight lasted 108 minutes, and Gagarin reached an altitude of 327 kilometers.” This first trip opened people eyes and make them believe that there were no impossible things for humans and at the same time it turned out to be an…

Soviet Union furthermore was able to be the first to send a probe to land on the surface of the Moon. This probe that accomplished this was entitled Luna 2. To take the Space Race to a different level, the Soviet Union also accomplished to send Yuri Gagarin, a cosmonaut, into Earth’s orbit in a capsule-like spacecraft called the Vostok 1. “For the U.S. effort to send a man into space, dubbed Project Mercury, NASA engineers designed a smaller, cone-shaped capsule far lighter than Vostok; they…

Just before and during the time Star Trek was broadcasting to every television in the United States and even around the world, space exploration was a hot topic. On April 12, 1961, the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human ever to reach Earth’s orbit and less than a year later, John Glenn became the first American to do the same, orbiting Earth three times before returning to the ground (“Space Exploration”). While frustrations were high in…

the space race. America’s space program, called the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), was waning in comparison to the space program in the USSR. The successes of the artificial satellite Sputnik 1 in 1957 and the launching of Yuri Gagarin into space in 1967 had greatly embarrassed the United States. This embarrassment prompted President Kennedy to become a man on a mission to propose something bold, something monumental, and something that could change the trajectory of the…

“We choose to go to the moon” Analysis Our speech that we chose to analyze will be the “We choose to go to the moon” speech. The speech is about us going to the moon and competing with the soviet union to get to the moon first. He also wants the U.S. to go to the moon to find out more things about space and the rest of the universe. He said going to the moon will lead to more advances than there were before going to the moon. He hopes for more knowledge, and peace by this decision. He knows…

“If women can be railroad workers in Russia why can't they be fly in space?” Valentina Tereshkova was an important aviator worldwide to thousands of females aspiring to become aviators. She was the first female to be flown into space and because of her many people rethought their beliefs about the capabilities of women. To this day many still renowned her as one of the most influential aviators in history. It this essay I will be discussing her early childhood, her early career, some of her…

Since the beginning of time, humans have had a fascination with cosmos. Many great scientists have helped with our lust and wondering of the great beyond. For example Galileo Galilei- a sixteenth-century Italian Astronomer, who invented his telescope to help cure his curstoutiy of the stars in the sky. Scientists with his common interests are what made it possible to travel into an outer domain. When looking at space travel, it is important to look at what made the soviets decide to travel into…

have communication satellites to tell us if we need an umbrella or when we need to take shelter. If it werent for Sputnik 1, we wouldn’t have any of those things. Sputnik 1 set off the trend of sending satellites into orbit. Without Sputnik 1, Yuri Gagarin, first man to space, wouldn’t have made the achievement. “Sputnik has been credited for helping instigate President John F. Kennedy's 1961 declaration that America would put a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s — a move designed in part…