Space Race Timeline Presentation

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  This is James and Harden and I chose to do my course project on the space race.

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  For the conceptual piece of this project,

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  I decided to make a timeline of all the

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  important events that happened during the space race.

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  The space race was a battle during the Cold War

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  era between the Soviet Union and the United States.

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  Basically a race to

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  advance space technology and accomplish a number of firsts.

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  So to start off in the timeline

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  on October 4th, 1957

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  the space race started with the Soviet Union launching Sputnik one,

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  the world's first artificial satellite

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  and below.

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  I included a primary source picture of an American

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  political cartoon titled Another Race We Can Lose.

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  This cartoon basically represents

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  America's anguish at the time over the Soviets accomplishment.

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  And in the picture, there's a bag of money

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  that says money, aid to India

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  and that kind of represents

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  how at this time, the warm

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  the relationship between the Soviet Union and India was warming. And earlier

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  in time, India was a neutral country.

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  So next on November 3rd, 1957

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  the Soviet Union launches Sputnik two carrying like the dog

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  who becomes the first animal to orbit Earth.

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  And down below is another primary source

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  of a 1959 cigarette trading card featuring like

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  on January 31st, 1958

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  the United States launches its first satellite

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  explorer one.

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  And then down down below is a model from a few years later of explorer one.

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  On October 1st 1958

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  America kind of advances their chase

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  to

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  keep um exploring space

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  by developing NASA

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  in the United States.

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  And then on April 12th, 1961 the Soviets

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  achieved another first by having the first human in space with Yuri

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  Gare

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  who completes one orbit around earth on Vostok.

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  One

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  down below is an American political cartoon of Yuri

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  and it basically represents America's concern about another Soviet win.

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  Next May 5th, 1961 Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space

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  aboard the freedom seven mercury capsule.

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  So as you can tell,

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  it's kind of going back and forth and we'll

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  continue to do so throughout the space race.

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  Next February 20th, 1962 John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit Earth.

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  Um He did three orbits

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  on the Friendship Seven Mercury mission

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  on June 16th 1963.

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  The Soviet

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  Valen

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  Valentina

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  becomes the first woman in space orbiting earth 48 times on the

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  Vostok six mission

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  on March 18th, 1965. A Soviet

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  Alexia

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  Leonov

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  conducts the first spacewalk during the Vos

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  cod two mission

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  on June 3rd, 1965

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  Edward white becomes the first American to perform

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  a spacewalk on the Gemini four mission.

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  So we caught up to them once again

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  on December 15th, 1965

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  US, Gemini six A and Gemini seven performed the first space rendezvous

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  between two crude spacecraft

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  on March 16th, 1966 US.

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  Gemini eight achieves the first docking between two

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  spacecraft which is an essential skill for future

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  missions to the moon.

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  Then on December 24th and 25th of 1968 us Apollo eight orbits the moon

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  becoming the first humans to see the far side of the moon.

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  This was a huge mission as it provided skills for

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  later when

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  for Apollo 11.

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  So on July 20th, 1969 us Apollo 11 astronauts Neon

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  and

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  Aldrin become the first humans to set foot on the moon

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  while Michael Collins orbits above

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  and then below is a picture

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  a screenshot from the footage

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  of um

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  Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walking on the moon,

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  placing the American flag into the moon

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  December 1972.

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  US. Apollo 17 marks the last manned mission to the moon during the space race era.

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  So technically, this is the end of the space race,

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  but most people would consider Apollo 11 to be the final victory,

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  the final US victory of the space race

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  and then now post space race.

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  Um This is a 1998 diagram of

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  the International Space station and the countries involved

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  this kind of just shows how,

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  how much progress all the countries have made to work together internationally

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  and have this space station that allows them all to advance

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  advance science and

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  maybe humanity as well.

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  And

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  yeah, that's pretty much it, that wraps it all up.