by Lee Harvey Oswald. Life in the 1960’s for both U.S. and Russia was a time of inventions‚ time of competing‚ and a time of war. They were competing on who was going to be the first to send someone to space. Russia sent the first man‚ Yuri Gagarin‚ to ever be in space; they had the first person to space walk outside of their space vehicle‚ ( Aleksei Leonov); they had the first Moon Landing with the Russia Luna. Although the USSR appeared to be a head in the space race‚ the U.S. received the
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Unit 9 Time Capsule 2325: The Era of the 1960’s Kaplan University Exploring the 1960 ’s SS310-24 Unit 9 Time Capsule 2325: The Era of the 1960’s It is the year 2325 and hundreds of years beyond the time of dominance the United States of America. This once super power is now just part of the North American Empire. While doing and archeological dig in the mid eastern area of the empire we discovered a time capsule from the 1960s. This time capsule had five things that were enclosed represented
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the Americans and the Russians were in what was known as the “Space Race”‚ both sides determined to beat the other. As the Russians began to progress‚ they began to get the edge on the United States. They beat us with the first human in space‚ Yuri Gagarin. The Americans did send someone into space but there was much pressure on beating
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happened everyone would die. 6. What aspects of the Space Race‚ or competition to explore space‚ do you remember? Was "Space Race" a phrase that you remember using at the time? What did it mean to you? Everyone was celebrating in Russia when Yuri Gagarin was the
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While the cost of space exploration is a controversial issue‚ our past explorations have had a lasting impact on mankind. If the government were to put more money into space exploration many benefits would be awarded to us. Although the explorations may take an enormous amount of money‚ time‚ and research‚ it also promises us astronomic profits in return. Many of us don’t understand all of the benefits that come along with space exploration‚ and how in the long run‚ they could outweigh the negative
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Through much of human existence‚ people have looked towards the sky and pondered what is out there; all the thoughts may have not been talking about space‚ but just the boundaries within their lives. In recent decades space is something that most [people] in the past would not have dreamt of reaching would soon become a vital part of human life as a space exploration become prominent. Space exploration started with the launch of Sputnik and the space race; time slowly passed since then and now space
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Electricity For the first time‚ virtually all houses had electricity. Transport 1969 The Anglo-French airliner Concorde makes its first supersonic test flight Space 1961 - First man in space First human space flight to orbit the Earth: Yuri Gagarin‚ Vostok 1. 1966 The Soviet Union launches Luna 10‚ which later becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon. 1968 First humans to leave Earth’s gravity influence and orbit another world: Apollo 8. 1969 First humans to walk
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With the lifting of the Berlin Blockade in 1945 came the start of the Cold War. It was the beginning of nearly 50 years of a new generation of war. The United States and Russia combated each other in terms of military prowess‚ economic power‚ and technological development. The later brought on the “Space Race.” There’s little clarity on where the race would end‚ but it’s generally regarded that the race was one to land on the moon. Although it was a product of war‚ the space race was a great
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October 4th‚ 1957‚ they launched Sputnik I into space. This granted them the lead in the race. The Explorer I was successfully placed into orbit by the US four months later. The Soviets basically “won” the race by putting the first man into space. Yuri Gagarin was the first man to orbit the Earth in April 12th‚ 1961 in the spacecraft Vostok I. The US then launched Alan Shepherd in the Freedom 7 three weeks later‚ but it took a nearly a year for the first American to orbit the Earth in the Friendship 7 on
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1958 by sending satellites of it’s own‚ the Explorer and Vanguard and organizing the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). In effect‚ the Soviet Union would set the bar for which the United States would aim to surpass. In 1961‚ Yuri Gagarin of the USSR became the first man to orbit the earth. This was also the year of John F. Kennedy’s inauguration‚ when he commits the United States to the goal of landing the first man on the moon before the completion of the decade. When John F. Kennedy
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