set by John F. Kennedy on May 25‚ 1961‚ “landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth.” Four years after the Sputnik shock of 1957‚ when Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space on April 12‚ 1961‚ Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom became the first Americans in space May 5‚ 1961‚ although they did not orbit the Earth as Gagarin had. This embarrassed the United States and caused Kennedy to feel pressure to have the United States “catch up and overtake” the Soviet Union in the “space race
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NEOCLASSICAL PERIOD Hogarth‚ The Marriage Contract‚ 1743. ROMANTIC PERIOOD Heart of the Andes‚ Frederic Edwin Church‚ 1859 ROMANTIC PERIOD Abbey in an Oak Forest‚ by Caspar David Friedrich‚ 1810. NEOCLASSICAL PERIOD Anna and Varvara Gagarin 1802 by Vladimir Lukich Borovikovskii (1757-1825) MODERN PERIOD Adoration-of-the-Magi-by-Sandro-Botticelli1 BAROQUE PERIOD "A Fantastic Cave Landscape with Odysseus and Calypso‚" 1568 - 1625‚ by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Hendrick de Clerck
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the International Geophysical Year‚ by declaring they would also launch a satellite "in the near future". The Soviet Union beat the US to this‚ with the October 4‚ 1957 orbiting of Sputnik 1‚ and later beat the US to the first human in space‚ Yuri Gagarin‚ on April 12‚ 1961. The race peaked with the July 20‚ 1969 US landing of the first humans on the Moon with Apollo 11. The USSR tried but failed manned lunar missions‚ and
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Soviets were successful in being the first to launch Sputnik 1. i. An artificial satellite. ii. On October 4‚ 1957. c. Again‚ The Soviets were successful in sending the first man into space. iii. His name was Yuri Gagarin. 1. The launch happened on April 12‚ 1961. 2. He was in orbit for 108 minutes. d. Kennedy then declares a “Moon Race.” iv. “We choose the Moon” speech on September 12‚ 1962. v. “I believe that this
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After the exhausting World War II‚ a new battle soon arose in the early 1950’s and continued throughout the 1960’s for the United States: the Space Race. This heated competition began between the democratic United States and the communist Soviet Union‚ lead to immense costs‚ heightened rivalries and a blooming of scientific discoveries in the space exploration field. The extensive Space Race was just an element to the Cold War‚ an expanding strain between the Allies and Axis powers. Each side wanted
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people doubted their ideas. I’m sure even I would have doubted this if I was alive during the time it happened. The Soviet Union got a lead by launching the first ever artificial satellite into space and soon after‚ the first man followed‚ Yuri Gagarin‚ who was launched into space in a spacecraft that orbited the Earth once over the course of 108 minutes. Sending a human out there was already a big step for humanity but the United States did not stop there. On July 20‚
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I would like to inform you about the biggest heavy weight fight that occur in our history. The two contenders were the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Both parties had a lot invested and prepared well for this bout. Who would strike the first blow? In 1957‚ the Soviets set up a knock-out and launched their first blow with the Sputnik. The Soviets continue to pull ahead of the scorecards by launching the Sputnik II with a larger payload and a dog named Laika.
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the Soviet Union and USA created ballistic missiles used to launch satellites into space. Later‚ in 1957‚ after the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I the U.S.A. and Soviet Union were in a race to get people into space. The Soviet Union first got Yuri Gagarin into space‚ but a few years later‚ the USA launched the Apollo 11 into space successfully. The Soviet Union was not able to recreate that successful space mission‚ so instead‚ they focused on space stations‚
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Research Proposal Presented to Mrs.Risalita C. Nalla Marcelo H. del Pilar National High School Malolos‚ Bulacan _______________ In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Subject Research _______________ By ANGELINE M. GAGARIN October‚ 2013 CHAPTER 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction Makahiya leaves are a sleepy plant. Mimosa Pudica is a very unusual plant for us‚ this plant is usually seen in our environment that not much use. That’s why I conduct
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“worker’s paradise”‚ superior to the capitalist West in every way. This was helped by the recent advances in technology including the launch of the first artificial satellite‚ Sputnik 1‚ in 1959 quickly followed up by the first man in space‚ Yuri Gagarin‚ in 1960‚ making Western technology seem left behind and outdated. As a result‚ the migration seemed to contradict the happy nature which the Soviets claimed existed‚ undermining the image of a prosperous East in the process. Another reason the
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