The Space Race COLD WAR Never broke into

The Space Race

COLD WAR = Never broke into a vs full war involving weapons. A USSR war of beliefs and pride.

Sergei Korolev Wernher Von Braun

1955 Both sides announce they will launch an artificial satellite We will be first! No! We will!

th 4 October 1957 USSR launch Sputnik 1 into orbit +1 https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=o. WR 70 ng. PYbc

th 4 November 1957 USSR get the first living creature into orbit – Laika the dog +1 +1 https: //www. youtube. com/watch? time_continue=2 7&v=Pz 63 twfo. W 3 c

th 12 April 1961 USSR launch the first human into Space +1 +1 +1

th 5 +1 May 1961 Less than a month later, USA launch Alan Shephard into space +1 +1 +1

th 20 February 1962 USA Astronaut John Glenn orbits the Earth 3 times +1 +1 +1 https: //www. youtube. com/watch? time_contin ue=17&v=vc. Giz. Tds. XIM

th 16 +1 +1 June 1963 USSR launches the first woman, Valentina Tereshkova, into space +1 +1

th 18 +1 +1 March 1965 USSR Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov performs the first space walk +1 +1 +1

rd 3 +1 +1 +1 June 1965 Ed white performs the USA’s first space walk +1 +1 +1

th 24 December 1968 +1 +1 USA’s Apollo 8 becomes the first manned craft to orbit the Moon, taking this picture of the Earth +1 +1 +1

th 20 July 1969 USA’s Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first people to walk on the Moon +1 +1 +1 https: //www. youtube. com/watch? time_continu e=17&v=cw. Zb 2 mq. Id 0 A

So who do you think won the Space Race?

APOLLO 11 VIDEO https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=8 il 6 rx-9 a 3 c