Space Race
- Created by: sophie.nchls
- Created on: 30-05-18 10:52
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- Space race (began in 1950s)
- Made possible by obtaining German rocket technology & expertise
- Post WW2
- Increasing competition
- Space technology + exploration
- Caused some significant achievements
- Creation of satellites
- First humans to be launched into space
- 1960s
- Soviet made the first ICBM
- Then used the technology to put a satellite into space one month later
- 22:30 Oct 4 1957 Sputnik launched into space
- Only capable of orbiting the earth transmitting beeps
- Caused panic in USA
- Eisenhower accused of letting their opponent take the lead in the space race & arms race
- 22:30 Oct 4 1957 Sputnik launched into space
- Soviets were able to get the first human into space
- Apr 1961 Yuri Gagarin in Vostok 1
- 108 minutes orbiting the earth
- A dog & a dummy was launched into space as a prototype
- Propaganda victory
- Superior over capitalist system
- Apr 1961 Yuri Gagarin in Vostok 1
- Then used the technology to put a satellite into space one month later
- US Alan Shepard 3 weeks after Gagarin
- Did not orbit the earth
- 1962 Friendship 7 orbit the earth
- Determined to prove the USA's capability
- "before this decade out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the earth"
- Determined to prove the USA's capability
- 1962 Friendship 7 orbit the earth
- Did not orbit the earth
- Made possible by obtaining German rocket technology & expertise
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