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3 de jun. de 2019 · Mars. Saturn. The stars. The galaxy: No destination in the great beyond is deemed too great in this reimagined space race. Though we don’t know where NASA’s astronauts actually end up in For ...
The “race to space” was initiated on October 4, 1957 with the successful launch by the Soviet Union of Sputnik I. Sputnik, the world's first artificial satellite, measured the size of a beach ball (58 cm or 22.8 inches in diameter), weighed only 83.6 kg (183.9 lbs), and orbited the Earth in 98 minutes on an elliptical path.
11 de mar. de 2017 · She made a gesture that “summed up Zambian public opinion of America’s $20 billion program to win the race to the moon so as to enhance our national prestige throughout the world. They think ...
6 de mar. de 2023 · Event. National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC and Presented Online. October 26, 2023 | 8 - 9pm. Deep dive. Story. Deep dive. The Space Race grew out of a conflict known as the Cold War. While not a war in the traditional sense, the two countries were in a state of military and political tension that lasted nearly 50 years and were ...
International Geophysical Year commemorative booklet on display at the Science Museum. The space race was part of the Cold War (1947–89). The development of long-range ballistic missiles by the main protagonists—the Soviet Union and the United States of America—enabled the space race. However, it was actually a global scientific research ...
The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the United States and the Soviet Union, to achieve superior spaceflight capability. It had its origins in the ballistic missile-based nuclear arms race between the two nations following World War II and had its peak with the more particular Moon Race to land on the Moon between the US moonshot and Soviet moonshot programs.
This infographic presents a timeline of space-related achievements by the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. between 1957 and 1969. A description of the timeline is below. On October 4, 1957, the U.S.S.R. launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite. On November 3, 1957, the U.S.S.R. placed the first animal in a spacecraft, the dog Laika aboard Sputnik 2.
