Space Race

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Space Race

• 1957-1971

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Space Race

• After World War II the United States and the
  Soviet Union became locked in a bitter Cold War
  of espionage and propaganda.
• Satellite-borne equipment could spy on other
  countries.
• Show Military Strength

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Space Race

• The same rockets that might send a human into
  orbit or hit a specific spot on the Moon could
  send an atom bomb to a specific enemy city.
• Much of the technological development required
  for space travel applied equally well to wartime
  rockets such as Intercontinental ballistic
  missiles (ICBMs).

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Space Race

• Artificial satellites start the "race"

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• 4 October 1957, the USSR successfully launched
  Sputnik 1
• Sputnik caused fear and stirred political debate
  in the United States.

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Sputnik
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• In the eyes of the world, first in space means
  first, period second in space is second in
  everything.
• Lyndon B. Johnson, Vice President to President
  John F. Kennedy

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Animals in Space

• The first mammal sent into orbit, the dog Laika,
  travelled in the USSR's Sputnik 2 in 1957.

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1st of Space

• The first communications satellite, Project
  SCORE, (Signal Communications Orbit Relay
  Equipment) launched on December 18, 1958,
  relayed a Christmas message from President
  Eisenhower to the world.

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MAN IN SPACE

• Yuri Gagarin became the first successful
  cosmonaut when he entered orbit in Russia's
  Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961

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Other 1st

• Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in
  space on June 16, 1963 in Vostok 6
• The first flight with more than one crew member,
  the USSR's Voskhod 1, a modified version of the
  Vostok craft, took off on October 12, 1964.

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More 1st

• Aleksei Leonov, from Voskhod 2, launched by the
  USSR on March 18, 1965, carried out the first
  spacewalk.

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TO THE MOON

• The Soviet Lunar program became operational with
  the launch of Luna 1 on January 4, 1959.
• Apollo 8 carried out the first manned orbit of
  the moon on December 27, 1968, laying the
  groundwork for placing a man on the moon.

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Man to the moon

• Apollo 11 gets there first
• American Neil Armstrong became the first person
  to set foot on the lunar surface, after landing
  in July of 1969.
• over 500 million people around the world.

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