The Space Race

23 billion in 1960's dollars, 100 billion in 2004's dollars.

It was Nikita Khrushchev, though his official title was Premier, not President.

If you are talking about the space race that was going on in the sixties then I would have to say that it was between the soviet union and the United States.

The USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) -- Russia launched Sputnik

The Space race is as a consequence of the Cold War.

The Cold war is a consequence of Josef Stalin

His success was based on a Hard Line Approach-mostly Hard Line within the Soviet union

He continued this Hard Line policy with the West after WW2

(That was what he was good at -why change? He understood power based on raw fear)

The Cold War continued after the death of Stalin

The Space race was only possible because of access to Rocket technology -originally developed by the Nazis during WW2.

USSR and USA both had access this.

USA was caught with its 'pants down ' when on 4 October 1957

a artificial satellite named Sputnik was successfully launched by USSR

The Space race was now a reality

First points to USSR

The space race, was the great struggle to get people into space, and the ultimate goal was getting a man on the moon. The space race was predominatly "fought" between Soviet Russia and the Cosponauts, and the United States with their Astronuats. Science, aerospace technology and rocket science research and experimentation was being heavily advanced and each country was trying to be the first into space. Eventually the United States won the space race with their aerospace science team (NASA) and the first people to set foot on the moon were U.S. Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.

soo who was better. it was a compitition. also; whoever could control space by their self would be able to control the world with the use of weapons like nuclear warheads. boom!

The two countries were America and Russia.

the two countries involved in the arms and the space race were the USSR (or United Soviet Socialist Republic) and the USA (united states of America). the space race and amrs race were only two facets of the geopolitical struggle between the two, called the cold war.

The Cold War fueled competition between the United States and the Soviet Union in the Space Race, as both countries sought to demonstrate their technological superiority and military strength through achievements in space exploration. The rivalry led to significant advancements in space technology and exploration as both nations raced to achieve milestones such as sending the first human to space and landing on the moon.

It was not so much opposed, but there were people , largely in the (social improvement belt) who felt it was a gigantic waste of money, and indeed should have been throttled back ( as it was after several Moon Landings) on economic grounds alone. Some saw it as a grandstand play for the Armed Forces- to draw attention away from Vietnam. I am not sure but it is plausible that Martin Luther King may have raised his opposition, being preoccupied with Soul and social issues.

It showed that orbiting the Earth was feasible, a vital step towards escaping Earth's gravity. (I've assumed that you mean a man-made satellite, rather than our Moon, which is also a satellite of the Earth.)

I don't really know, but it probably motivated the US to work harder and faster to beat Soviet Russia.

The space race was when the us and the ussr tried to get the newest equipment into space. It happened between 1957 and 1975.

I don't know why!?!?

8 minutes for the shuttle to go to space

The Soviet Union was leading the space race in 1961 due to the successful launch of the first human, Yuri Gagarin, into space aboard Vostok 1. This achievement marked a significant milestone in space exploration.

Let's assume that the "Space Race" characterized the period from 1957 to 1972 ...

an interval of 15 years. I don't have precise statistics, but it would certainly be

safe to assume that during any period of 15 years in modern history, although

the direct influence of the space race itself was negligible, many millions of people

died, of natural and other causes, in countries throughout the world.

It didn't, and in fact, the space race directly accelerated the arms race.

The space race, a term beloved by journalists of the late 1950s and the 1960s, was the unofficial "contest" between the US and the USSR, the Soviet Union, to put assets in Earth orbit. The true goal of the entire exercise, routinely buried or disregarded by the press, was for one side of the Cold War to impress on the other side an advantage in the ability to deliver nuclear weapons.

Early Soviet "victories" in the race -- the first satellite (Sputnik), the first man in space and in orbit -- spurred the US into the "race," and led John Kennedy to proclaim the goal of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely home before 1970.

Numerous systemic failures in the Soviet system likely would have allowed the "space race" to tilt the US way in any case. But NASA's thrust for a moon landing put the US far ahead as early as 1965, when Gemini astronauts were pioneering the art/science of EVA's -- extra-vehicular activities, called "spacewalking" at the time -- and literally moving from space capsule to space capsule after docking.

In the end, the US put Apollo 11 on the moon in July, 1969, and Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin put the first human footprints there. Several other Apollo moon landings followed. The Soviets never managed anything even close to that feat.

In the end, the "space race," as conducted in the early days of space exploration, was not about global cooperation, but was in every way about military domination. Those magnificent rockets were launched to show the other side that they were mere minutes away from nuclear destruction.

1. What were the expected results of each country's space exploration efforts? 2. Has mankind progressed or profited in any way as a result of our moon exploration? 3. What countries were involved in the space race? 4. Who won the space race? Explain your answer.

Answer

From what I've seen the space race didn't change much except in the Political wars that countries often have over who's best. The United States won that race, but what was accomplished is beyond me.

The space race sparked increased investment in science and technology, leading to advancements in various fields such as telecommunications, material science, and medicine. It also inspired a generation of young people to pursue careers in STEM fields and contributed to the development of satellite technology that has since revolutionized communication and daily life. Additionally, the space race fueled competition between nations and served as a symbol of national pride and achievement.

soviet union

There are a few alternate viewpoints on exactly how and when the Space Race began, but the most accepted view is that it began on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite, into Earth orbit. This led to a rapid sequence of events in both the United States and the Soviet Union that helped mobilise the industrial resources of both superpowers towards the goal of 'beating' the other in space technology.

If you look a little further back in time, however, one could argue that the Space Race began in the years after World War Two with the ballistic missile programs of the United States and the Soviet Union. Ballistic missiles (in particular ICBM's, or Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles), are an example of what is known as dual-use technology, in that whilst they are designed primarily for a military purpose (i.e. delivery system for nuclear weapons across continents), they also have the power to launch satellites into space. After Nazi Germany's technological leap in the development of the V2 ballistic missile during World War Two (with a range of around 300 kilometres), the United States and the Soviet Union both clamored to gather as much information as they could about this technology in the post-war confusion of occupied Germany. The Americans were undoubtedly far more successful in this venture, due to the repatriation of a number of German rocket scientists and their blueprints to the US under a project informally named "Operation Paperclip". This included Wernher von Braun, the father of the Nazi rocketry program and inventor of the V2. With much less to go off, the Soviet Union launched its own indigenous program to develop a V2 replica from scratch - this was accomplished by a man named Sergei Korolev. Both nations then continued to build upon their rocket technology over the next decade - ostensibly from a military viewpoint, but with certain individuals such as von Braun and Korolev harbouring desires for space exploration.

1957 was a key year in that it fell during the "International Geophysical Year" - a period of time dedicated to, among other things, aeronautical and upper atmospherical research. The United States had publicly declared it's intention to launch the world's first satellite during this period; following suit, the Soviet Union decided more privately on a similar project. The original design for the Sputnik satellite was far more complicated, however due to time constraints and the desire to beat the Americans into space, it was replaced with the simpler model.

The American reaponse is commonly known as the "Sputnik Crisis", and led to, among other things, the creation of NASA (the National Aeronautical and Space Administration) as a central, civilian, unified effort for the American space program.