The Space Race by Preston Rowland https://padlet.com/25rowlandp/Bookmarks World History - Hour 2 en-us 2022-04-07 13:00:30 UTC 2025-10-23 00:07:37 UTC hello@padlet.com What was the Competition 25rowlandp https://padlet.com/25rowlandp/Bookmarks/wish/2142477944 It was a competition between the U.S. and the Soviet Union to see who was superior in space travel.]]> 2022-04-13 14:24:21 UTC https://padlet.com/25rowlandp/Bookmarks/wish/2142477944 What was the Significance of Sputnik? 25rowlandp https://padlet.com/25rowlandp/Bookmarks/wish/2142479149 It was the first satellite ever successfully sent into space and orbited the Earth. It was done by the Soviet Union.]]> 2022-04-13 14:25:08 UTC https://padlet.com/25rowlandp/Bookmarks/wish/2142479149 What country would be the first to actually reach space and what accomplished for them? How did this continue to create competition? 25rowlandp https://padlet.com/25rowlandp/Bookmarks/wish/2142479859 The Soviet Union was the first country to send a man into space. On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin was launched up in Vostok 1 and was the first person ever to be sent into space. It created competition because the Soviet Union made it to space first and the US didn’t want to lose this easily.]]> 2022-04-13 14:25:36 UTC https://padlet.com/25rowlandp/Bookmarks/wish/2142479859 What agency was created in the US and how was it dedicated to the space journey? 25rowlandp https://padlet.com/25rowlandp/Bookmarks/wish/2142480681 The National Aeronautics and Space Administration was created in the US to help give them an advantage in the space race. It was dedicated to space travel because President Dwight D. Eisenhower created the program specifically for the space race.]]> 2022-04-13 14:26:08 UTC https://padlet.com/25rowlandp/Bookmarks/wish/2142480681 Why was president Kennedy’s proclamation of getting a man to the moon so important? What does this have to do with project Apollo? 25rowlandp https://padlet.com/25rowlandp/Bookmarks/wish/2142481280 It was important because President Kennedy thought that being the first to send a man to the moon would surely put them in the lead and win the space race. Project Apollo was the project that NASA started to get the man to the moon. The project was created by NASA after they listened to President Kennedy’s speech and what he wanted the spaceship to do.]]> 2022-04-13 14:26:29 UTC https://padlet.com/25rowlandp/Bookmarks/wish/2142481280 Who won the space race? How? 25rowlandp https://padlet.com/25rowlandp/Bookmarks/wish/2142482770 The United States effectively won the space race after putting the first man on the moon. The race started in 1957 when the USSR put sputnik in space and ended in 1975 a few years after Neil Armstrong was the first person to step on the moon.]]> 2022-04-13 14:27:29 UTC https://padlet.com/25rowlandp/Bookmarks/wish/2142482770 What are 3 ways the space race created competition between the US and USSR? 25rowlandp https://padlet.com/25rowlandp/Bookmarks/wish/2142493616
  • Space travel had not yet been achieved which made it brand new, giving the US and Russia a perfect opportunity to prove they are better than each other
  • In doing so, the U.S. wanted to show they were more powerful than Russia. They were competing with each other by mainly seeing who could be the "first" to do something related to space travel
  • They also wanted to show that they are better than Russia by putting a man on the moon first and Russia wanted to show they were better by putting the first man in space etc.

    • ]]>     2022-04-13 14:34:18 UTC https://padlet.com/25rowlandp/Bookmarks/wish/2142493616     What 3 comparisons could be made in technology in the present to the impact made by the space race? 25rowlandp https://padlet.com/25rowlandp/Bookmarks/wish/2142530486 One comparison in technology in the present is the international space station being created. This was revolutionary because it created sort of a home base floating around in space. And it even gets the spot of being the most expensive man-made object. Second, newer, reusable rockets have been created by Elon Musk's SpaceX program. They are satellite rockets that could be launched up into space and sent back down into Earth's atmosphere cleaning up space and creating less space junk. One final way the space race has been having access and technology to newer and bigger missions in space travel. SpaceX is planning to colonize the moon and NASA has launched one of their new telescopes earlier this year going farther than ever. That is how the space race has impacted space travel technology even to this day.]]> 2022-04-13 14:56:47 UTC https://padlet.com/25rowlandp/Bookmarks/wish/2142530486