was of the Soviet unmanned Sputnik ("Satellite I") mission on October 4‚ 1957. The satellite weighed about 83 kg (184 pounds)‚ and is believed to have orbited Earth at a height of about 250 km (150 miles). Analysis of the radio signals was used to gather information about the electron density of the ionosphere‚ while temperature and pressure data was encoded in the duration of radio beeps. The results indicated that the satellite was not punctured by a meteoroid. Sputnik 1 was launched by an R-7 rocket
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Race effectively began on October 1‚ 1957 when the Soviets launched the first ever manmade satellite‚ Sputnik. The Space Race was considered an analogy to the arms race that was going on at the same time. The Space Race eventually became an important part in the technological‚ ideological and social differences between the United Sates and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The launch of Sputnik‚ by the Soviets‚ in 1957 prompted the US to do something to catch up to the Soviets. The first thing
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Many of the military technological advancements that have been made in the last 60 years can be attributed to the Cold War. Much of the technology developed during the period of the Cold War is still in use today by the military and government. Advancements in offensive technology are well known to just about everyone in the way of nuclear energy harnessed in the form of the nuclear bomb‚ but little is known about the battle for information during the Cold War. The Cold War produced some of the
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The hysteria surrounding communism ravaged the United States of America when John F. Kennedy was elected president. Sputnik was orbiting in space‚ the Cold War raged in the background and to combat the fear‚ America needed a strong‚ dependable leader. At this time‚ Kennedy barely beat his presidential competitor Richard Nixon causing uneasy feelings in the American public. To alleviate the apprehension‚ John F. Kennedy delivered an inspiring inaugural speech which sent a message of strength to the
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The American people feared the Soviet for two reasons. One reason was why the American people feared the Soviet was because the Soviet had nuclear bombs. The other reason was that the Soviet was the first to put up an orbiting satellite‚ which was Sputnik. However‚ the American people greatest fear was communism (Doc B.). Communist influence spread to China as well as Eastern Europe‚ and soon made is way to Cuba. From this advantage point‚ the U.S.S.R. started exporting nuclear missiles and this was
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represents the ups and downs of the war. I used 14 events: when the U.S. drops the atomic bomb‚ the Iron curtain‚ the Berlin Airlift‚ when China falls to communism‚ the Domino effect‚ when Russia drops their atomic bomb‚ hysteria‚ the launching of Sputnik‚ Bay of Pigs‚ the Cuban Missile Crisis‚ the Berlin Wall was built‚ the U.S. gets a man on the moon‚ the Berlin Wall falls‚ and the end of the Soviet Union‚ or the end of the Cold War. If the United States had a victory‚ the little person goes up the
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Space Shuttle+ ISS. Digital image. Blogspot.com. Web. 12 Jan. 2012. . "Space Shuttle Retirement." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation‚ 05 Apr. 2012. Web. 3 Apr. 2012. . "Space Shuttle." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation‚ 05 Dec. 2012. Web. 8 Mar. 2012. . Sputnik. Digital image. Wikimadia.org. Web. 12 Jan. 2012. . Sun ’s Atmosphere. Digital image. Wikimedia.org. Web. 12 Jan. 2012.
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October 5‚ 1957; this is the day that went down in history as the day the Space Race between the United States and the USSR began. On this day the USSR successfully launched the Sputnik satellite into orbit around the planet. Close to a month later the USSR launched the Sputnik 2 which held the first living organism to orbit the planet; Laika the dog. The series of events that followed brought change to the Cold War and to the world that could not have been foreseen in terms of international relations
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favouritism and sibling rivalry towards Homers brother. Homer’s father John saw rockets as a childish thing and a waste of time as did quite a lot of the town’s people. Most of them didn’t like the idea that Sputnik could be used to drop bombs or as a spy satellite‚ Homer however was intrigued by Sputnik and wanted to build his own and go into space. John wanted homer down in the coal mine working the way that he did‚ because to John that was what a man without a football scholarship did in Coalwood. (Homer:
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National Missile Defense Architecture; Land or Space-based Defense systems-deciding which system(s) are the most efficient for our nation’s defense Submitted in partial fulfillment for the requirements for course (AW570 National Missile Defense) Caesar A. Garcia American Public University System April 8‚ 2006 Over the past four decades the need for designing comprehensive national missile defense system(s) has been argued in our
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