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LIFE’s all-new special edition, The Great Space Race: How the U.S. Beat the Russians to the Moon recaptures those heady days, tracing the race’s early days and the politics surrounding it, the race to develop technology, and the elation of an entire nation as we watched the 1969 liftoff to the moon.
Forged in the cauldron of both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Gulag-and fueled by the development of nuclear weapons during the Cold War- The Great Space Race is an epic drama filled with triumphs and tragedies, both technological and deeply human, that riveted the U.S. even as it seemed the fate of the free world (perhaps even the world itself ) hung in the balance.
27 de jul. de 2017 · The Space Race started with the USSR launching Sputnik 1 in 1957, which created a furor worldwide. The governments and masses were excited to see mankind taking another leap towards progress.
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.
14 de may. de 2023 · The space race was a bitter competition that took place in the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
20 de feb. de 2021 · 4 October 1957: The USSR successfully launches Sputnik 1, the first Earth-orbiting satellite in history. 3 November 1957: The USSR successfully launches Sputnik 2, carrying a dog named Laika into space. They become the first nation to successfully send a living organism into orbit. 31 January 1958: The US enter the space race by launching ...
22 de sept. de 1998 · In general, Kennedy felt great pressure to have the United States “catch up to and overtake” the Soviet Union in the “space race.” Four years after the Sputnik shock of 1957, the cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin had become the first human in space on April 12, 1961, greatly embarrassing the U.S.
