Space Race Research Paper

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Who really won the space race? Russia won the space race! They achieved space superiority on all fronts before the U.S. did with a few minor exceptions. I think that the Soviet Union (Russia) won the space race. I think that they won the space race because they were the first to get a man in space. They even got an animal in space before the U.S. got anything in space. Russia started its space superiority by sending the first satellite to orbit the earth. The satellite was called the Sputnik 1 which was launched on October 4, 1957 and was the first artificial satellite launched into space. The satellite was the first successful entry into the space race for Russia. The U.S.A. wasn't able to successfully send up a satellite until January 31,…show more content…
Yuri Gagarin was the first man to be launched into space. He went up into space on April 12th 1961, in the spacecraft named the Vostok 1. A famous quote from Yuri was ¨I saw for the first time the Earth´s shape. I could easily see the shores of continents, islands, great rivers, folds of the terrain, and large bodies of water. The horizon is dark blue, smoothly turning to black… the feeling which filled me I can express with one word-JOY.¨ Nearly a year later, after Russia put the first man into space, the U.S. put a man name John Glenn in a shuttle and launched him into space where he orbited the Earth. Glenn was launched into space in 1962 on February 20th and became the fifth man ever in…show more content…
thinks that they won the space race is because they got a man on the moon first. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first people to ever step foot on the moon. They were launched into space on July 20, 1969 and Neil said these famous words, “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”. They also launched the first moon rover on July 30, 1971 and was able to successfully drive the rover on the moon. The United States was the first to get a satellite in space and to have a man orbit the Earth. The satellite was launched by the U.S. on January 31 and was named the Explorer 1. The satellite was the very first thing that the U.S. put in space and it was what started the United States in its race to get a man into space and on the moon. On May 5, 1961 Alan Shepard became the first American in space. May 25th President Kennedy challenged the country to put a man on the moon by the end of the
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