Can any1 give me the heads up on the space race and who was the first to do what?

Question

I have to do a project by april 10th any information afterwards is no use sorry

Answer 1

The Russians had the first successful satellite in orbit, called Sputnik in the late 1950's. Then they followed that with another sattelite which carried a dog passenger. They called it Sputnik 2., but American press nicknamed it Muttnik.

The US went into a panic about all of this (still the middle of the cold war) We started a crash space program and within a short period were able to start with Alan Sheppard and Gus Grissom in sub orbital flights followed by John Glenn in an orbital flight. Pres. John Kennedy committed the country to land a man on the moon by the end of the 60's. Neal Armstrong did just that in August 1969.

Answer 2

Object in Space
Orbit,
Man in Space
Object on Moon
First Space Walk
Russia

Man on moon,
earth orbit Docking
orbit around Venus, Saturn, Jupiter, Pluto, Mars
Extra Solar System object travel
USA

Japan, India, China, French, British, and many others have contributed.
B

Answer 3

Space Race.. Russia first to space. US first to moon. Race was basically a beefed-up version of two street thugs proving who is the best by jumping up and down to see who can jump up the farthest. But really it served no other purpose.

Answer 4

Well, rocketry began with China and gunpowder long long ago.

There is a drawing or sculture of some olden Chinese leader sitting in a chair with rockets under him, implying they were shooting him up to the Heavens.

India was among the first nation to use rockets in warfare against an enemy (Britian, I believe) other than to light the sky.

Goddard began liquid rocket tests as an amateur in the 1920s and 1930s.

Fritz Lang made a movie called the First Woman in the Moon in the 1930s using a 3 stage rocket.

Hitler's scientists came up with the V1 (ram jet) weapon and V2 liquid fuel rocket used against London in the late 1944 to early 1945 period just before the end of the war.

Then the US and Russia took over and won the war and split the scientists between them.

America experimented with Capture V2 rockets and Russia started making their own design

America was working on missles to launch bombs and eventually came up with a Redstone rocket that worked, probably for the Minuteman program, but check me on that one.

Then in 1957 Russia put a raido satlilte into orbit, shortly after they they put a dog into orbit.

The US started to follow their lead using the Restone rocket and trying to develop a method of going into space.

The US launched several stalites.

Then Russia put a man (Yuri Gregarian -- checkspelling) into orbit in the 1960s and President Kenney commited the US to putting a man on the moon before 1970.

Shortly after that the US put a monkey into space. Then sent Alan Shepard into a sub orbital flight in the early 1960s, followed by John Glenn.

Russia put the first woman into space just after that.

Then put several men into space.

Russia sent the first ship around the Moon and took the first pictures of hte back side of the moon.

The US sent ships to the Moon to take pictures of potential landing sights with the Ranger and then Surveyor programs.

Then America started putting two men at a time into space in Gemini program.

Russia put many men and even a woman with them at one time and had one of the first accidents when the door leaked during reentry and all were killed.

Russia was doing hard parachut landings on land.

America was doing hard parachut landings on water.

America did space walks starting with Ed White.

Then the US started the Appol Program with 3 men in a ship and a separate capsule for lunar landing.

America had a first accident during training in which pure O2 in the ship caught on fire and killed 3 astrnaughts.

America was then the first to put men around the moon in the late 1960s and then the first to put men on the Moon with Armstrong around 1969.

America and Russia started some joint space efforts in the late 1960s in which two teams would meet up in space.

After the 1970s interest in space and the moon died and so did funding for the American space program.

America started to consider using re-usable space vehicles, a kind of space air plane and came up with the Shuttle.

Russa kept using their old concept of a big bell on top of a big rocket.

There were plans to make a huge international space station but funding scaled this down to the mini station we have no.

In the mean time America and Russia sent probes to Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, etc.

India, China, France, Japan and South America all have space programs.

China is the thrid nation to put men into space.

India is expected to do this in the near future.

The Europeans have a joint rocket effort of unmanned problems under ESA

South America is struggling to get their program off the ground, literally.

The most viable rocket countries are Russia, US, China, India and ESA.

Answer 5

just go to wikipedia type in space race, i mean russians did sputnik, they had first cosmonaut, i hope you realize that the United States landed on the moon? Please I hope so. Just wikipedia it.