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Yes. The Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first satellite, on October the 4th 1957. The first US satellite was launched on January 31st 1958, and was called Explorer I.
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Who was the Cold War between?
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What are the six things Hitler did once he became dictator of Germany?
took over most of the land around him. tried to control the soviet union but got beat.
What has happened since the end of World War 2 in the development of the rocket in both the US and the Soviet Union?
what happened is that they both lost and mexico beat them in rocketry
What role did competition play in the space race?
I don't really know, but it probably motivated the US to work harder and faster to beat Soviet Russia.
Who did US beat in 1980 Olympics in hockey?
The 1980 United States Hockey Team accomplished one of the greatest upsets in the history of sports. A group of college players who hadn't played together before the Olympics took on a professional team from the Soviet Union and defeated them to win the gold medal.
Why did humans first land on the moon?
to try to beat the soviet union in the space race when john f. Kennedy declared it.
Which country did America desperately want to beat in getting the first man on the moon?
The Space Race was run against the Soviet Union.
Why did sergei make sputnik 1?
created so that the soviet union can beat the usa in the race to be the first country to launch a satellite into space.
Who was the usa trying to beat to the moon?
Soviet union (Russia)
Was the impact of the Soviet Union's space program a factor in the Apollo mission?
The fact that the Soviet Union had moved ahead of the United States in terms of their Space Program made President Kennedy believe the country had to step up and beat them. National resources to NASA and the space program were immediately allocated.
What is the agency for the us government that work to explore space?
The United States Space program established by JFK to "put a man on the moon by the end of the decade" and beat the Soviet Union. The agency tasked with space esploration is NASA, the North American Space Administration.
Who entered space first?
The Soviet Union, both with a satellite and with a human. In 1957, the Soviet Union successfully launched into Earth orbit the first artificial (man-made) satellite called Sputnik. I caused a shock around the world, and raised questions in the US as to how they beat us into space. 4 years later, Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space after the Soviet Union launched his spacecraft into orbit with a Vostok launch vehicle. It caused an even bigger shock around the world than Sputnik did.
What month was the space race?
The space race did not take place in a single month. The space race was a period that lasted for nearly 20 years from the mid 1950s until the early 1970s when the United States and Soviet Union were trying to beat one another to various acheivements in space exploration.
What was the political motivation for the Apollo missions?
To show to the world that the United States could beat the Soviet Union in a contest of technology and will. The USSR had recently impressed the world with its space achievements. In the context of the Cold War, President Kennedy looked for a space spectacular that the US could achieve first, despite the current Soviet lead.
Who did West Germany beat in the 1966 world cup semi final?
The Soviet Union, 2-1.
Did you beat the Russians to the moon?
No, the United States, not Russia, was the first country to successfully land humans on the Moon with the Apollo 11 mission in 1969. The Soviet Union was the first to launch a satellite, Sputnik, into space in 1957.
Why was it so important for the US to be the first to reach the moon?
That was during the Cold War and we were competing with the Soviet Union to see who could get into space fastest. People were worried that countries would build military bases in space or on the moon, so they were trying to beat the other country there.
