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President when when the Soviets put the first man in space?
John F. Kennedy
Was American or Soviets the first to orbit the Earth?
The Soviets, Yuri Gagarin was the first man to orbit the earth.
What did landing on the moon have to do with the cold war?
In 1960 the "space race" began between the US and Soviets. Both worked to get to the moon first and in 1969 the US landed on the moon. The Soviets never have landed. The space race was just another outcome of the Cold War. The ability to launch a rocket has military advantages whether it has a payload for space or for military uses.
Who was President during the first American man in space?
JFK was president when Alan Sherad left Earth
What country place the first man and satellite in space?
That would be the U.S.S.R. otherwise known as the Soviet Union, which placed the first satellite (Sputnik 1) into orbit on October 4, 1957, and the first man (Yuri Gagarin) into space on April 12, 1961. The Soviets also placed the first woman in space. They had a lot of firsts, but the United States had the first rendezvous in space, the first docking in space, the first men to the moon and the first men to land on the moon.
What impact did the first space walk have on society?
When Alexi Leonov became the first man to walk in space, it was another first for the Soviet Uniion who had already sent up the first satellite, man and woman into space. They were trying to show that the communist system was superrior to the American capitalistic system. While they may have been first at many things, the United States did it better, cheaper and much safer than the Soviets. The Americans accomplished many of those same things, usually within weeks of the Soviet Union. We weren't as far behind as many in the world thought at the time. The things the Soviets did, they did because they knew that America was planning on doing them in the near future. The Soviets just wanted to be first, so they rushed untrained people into space in order to accomplish the feat before the Americans. In the end, America triumphed when they landed the first humans on the moon and returned them safely back to earth. The Soviets have yet to send a man beyond earth orbit.
Why was the Sputnik 1 satellite planned?
The United States and Soviet Russia were kind of in a race to get into space. I believe it was actually called the 'Space Race'. Sputnik 1 was put into space by the Soviets to collect data. Eventually, they actually sent a dog out there, which was the first living being in space. In the end, the US was the first country to get a man into space.
Why did JFK support the 'man on the moon'?
When the Space Race began in 1959, the Soviet Union accomplished many firsts. Among them, the first satellite in space, the first animal in space, the first man in space, the first woman in space, the first man to walk in space, the first multi-vehicle space mission among others. The United States was constantly getting beat by the Soviets in major international technological feats. After the Soviets sent Yuri Gagarin into space to become the first man in space, President John Kennedy asked his vice president, Lyndon Johnson, if there was "any space program which promises dramatic results which we could win?" 3 weeks later, Johnson reported that "manned exploration of the moon, for example, is not only an achievement with great propaganda value, but it is essential as an objective whether or not we are first in its accomplishment." On May 25, 1961, Kennedy announced before a special session of congress that the United States "should committ itself to achieving the goal, before the decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth." Kennedy's goal was accomplished on July 20, 1969, when Apollo 11 becamed the first manned vehilcle to land on another celestial body. The United States sent 6 more missions to land on the moon. 5 of them were successful. The Apollo 13 moon landing was cancelled after an oxygen tank exploded on the way to the moon. The astronauts continued to the moon and swung around it and returned safely 4 days later.
When was First Man into Space created?
First Man into Space was created in 1959.
What was the first name of the first man in space?
The Russian, Yuri Gagarin, was the first man in space.
Why did people want to go to the moon?
Mostly because we see it almost every day. The official reason president John F. Kennedy chose to go to the moon is because the Soviet Union had beaten the United States in every space accomplishment up to that time. The Soviets were the first to launch a satellite into space, the first to launch an animal (dog) into space, the first to launch a man into space and the first to send a woman into space. Kennedy wanted to set a goal both reasonable and challenging enough to capture the imagination of the American public, who would be paying for the trips with their tax dollars.
First man in space was from what country?
Yuri Gagarin was the first man in space and he was from Russia.
