Race Into Space
Race Into Space
The Space Race began in 1955 when both countries announced that they would soon be launching satellites into orbit. The Soviets took the US announcement as a challenge and even established a commission whose goal was to beat the US in putting a satellite into space. On October 4, 1957 the Russians placed the first successful satellite into orbit. Space cannon blasts into 1960's space race. By Chuck Wullenjohn. Notable hallmarks of the 1960's were precisely engineered rockets for space travel constructed by the Soviet Union and the United. On August 30, 1955, Korolev managed to get the Soviet Academy of Sciences to create a commission whose purpose was to beat the Americans into Earth orbit: this was the de facto start date for the Space Race. Race to the Moon It is 1961 and the Soviet Union has just launched the first man into space. President Kennedy responds by saying, '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.' Space exploration - Space exploration - Major milestones: The first artificial Earth satellite, Sputnik 1, was launched by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957. The first human to go into space, Yuri Gagarin, was launched, again by the Soviet Union, for a one-orbit journey around Earth on April 12, 1961. Within 10 years of that first human flight, American astronauts walked on the surface of.
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