The Space Race

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The Space Race The Berlin Crisis

• US History II

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• Lift Off Space Race Continues
• USSR
• Yuri Gagurin
• Russian Cosmonaut (astronaut)
• April 12, 1961 took off in Vostok I
• First human in space and orbit the earth.

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USA Mercury Missions

• Learn if humans could survive the difficulties of
  spaceflight
• Alan B. Shepard Jr. became the first American to
  fly into space. 15-minute suborbital mission May
  5, 1961
• John H. Glenn Jr. became the first U.S. astronaut
  to orbit the Earth
• Project Mercury achieved its goal of putting
  piloted spacecraft into Earth orbit and
  retrieving the astronauts safely

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Gemini Missions

• Extended NASA's human spaceflight program to
  spacecraft built for two astronauts
• Data on weightlessness, perfected reentry and
  splashdown procedures, and demonstrated
  rendezvous and docking in space
• Edward H. White, Jr., became the first U.S.
  astronaut to conduct a spacewalk

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Apollo Missions

• Apollo became a NASA priority on May 25 1961,
  when President John F. Kennedy announced "I
  believe that this nation should commit itself to
  achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of
  landing a man on the Moon and returning him
  safely to Earth." A direct response to Soviet
  successes in space, Kennedy used Apollo as a
  high-profile effort for the U.S. to demonstrate
  to the world its scientific and technological
  superiority over its cold war adversary.

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Apollo Missions

• Apollo Program lasted 1963 to 1972
• Goal land a human to the moon return to Earth
• costing 25.4 billion
• Six of the Apollo missions would land on the moon

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July 20, 1969

• Apollo 11 Crew Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins,
  Buzz Aldrin
• The Eagle has landed - Moon landing site Sea
  of Tranquility
• Armstrong This is one small step for a man, one
  giant leap for mankind

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Berlin Crisis

• Escape from East Berlin
• 1950 to 1961 100,000 to 200,000 refugees escape
  to West Berlin.
• The only way to stop them was by force.

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Berlin Crisis

• ltAug. 1961gt Berlin Wall
• East Germany sealed off
• 32,000 combat and engineer troops build the wall
• Border Police control the newly constructed
  barrier.