13. The Space Race

Question 1

What was the space race?

Answer 1

It was a race for superiority between the USA and USSR between the late 1950s and early 1970s

Question 2

What led to the space race?

Answer 2

• propaganda, both countries were keen to show superiority and wanted to be seen as leading the world into the modern age
• weapons development, Americans were worried nukes could be launched using the the same system the SU launched rockets into space and this was justified through ICBMs

Question 3

What happened on October 4, 1957?

Answer 3

The SU sent the first man-made satellite into orbit :Sputnik. It could orbit earth in 1.5 hrs . the Americans have been working on the same thing and the Soviet victory was seen as a triumph for communism, a word as saw it as a military threat .

Question 4

What happened on November 3, 1957?

Dog

Answer 4

The SU sent the first animal into space, a dog named Laika, as the Americans scrambled to catch up

Question 5

What happened on April 12, 1961?

Man on Moon

Answer 5

The Soviet union wins the race to send a human into space with cosmonaut Yuri gagarin

Question 6

What happened on 5 May 1961?

American flight

Answer 6

There was the first successful American space flight controlled by pilot Alan Shepard

Question 7

What happened on May 25, 1961?

Kennedy

Answer 7

Kennedy announced that by the end of the decade, an American will land on the moon but technology was still far from being able to achieve this

Question 8

What happened on the 20th of July 1969?

Neil

Answer 8

Neil Armstrong became the first man on the man as Kennedy’s promise was fulfilled

Question 9

What happened on July 15, 1975?

Apollo Soyuz

Answer 9

The first joint space mission between the US and SU ‘Apollo Soyuz’ is seen as a symbol of a new age of co-operation between the superpowers

Question 10

What did America do after Sputnik

Answer 10

Increase missile spending by 20% during 1957-59 and made national aeronautics and spade administration. Expanded training for engineers .

Also increased b 52 bombers and us navy equipped some of submarines with nuclear bombs. Some of these in Europe now too .

Question 10

Breifely what happened

Answer 10

1) first satellite Sputnik Oct 1957
2) dog Laika
3) Yuri Gagarin sent to space first April 1961
4) America controlled a flight (Alan )
4) Kennedy announced in May 1961 an astronaught would be in moon
5)juky 1969 Neil Armstrong
Later Apollo Soyuz mission happened