The Space Race

Some of the achievements were that they did all their history work and got a hundred in the class. Then, everyone was happy and wouldn't do bad ever again. ********************************* What? the entry above doesnt make sense. What super powers involved included the USSR, the US, and CHINA. i recommend u search USSR to find out which countries were part of it in wikipedia.org

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the space race started when the soviet union union launched Sputnik into space.

The "space race" was a competition between USSR and The United States to get objects and people into space orbit, and eventually reach the moon. The USSR placed the first synthetic satellite in orbit ("sputnik"), placed the first human in orbit, preformed the first space walk (where the astronaut leaves the rocket and floats in free space, attached to the rocket by a cord), but the US placed the first man on the moon.

neil armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon but russia had the first man in space so we were in a compitition

The USSR launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, into orbit on the 4th of October, 1957.

On the 4th of October 1957, the Soviet Union sent Sputnik into orbit. A month later the Soviets would send Laika, First living creature (a dog) in orbit around the Earth. The Americans thinking that they were years ahead of the Soviets had a nice little wake up call.

they fell out over who got the bigger slice of cake

*rolls eyes* that's not it at all; I'm a novanetter... now here's the answer; "They both wanted to develop technology to successfully land on the moon."

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The entire reason for the 1960s space race was a cold war exercise to demonstrate which country could deliver the largest hydrogen bomb the furthest distance the most accurately, without actually having to use a real hydrogen bomb (because if real hydrogen bombs were used then there might be no one left to actually declare the winner of the demonstration). It was also much easier to convince the public to participate in this cold war exercise was to wrap it in Propaganda that it was for peaceful scientific and exploration purposes, not military purposes.

The United States and The Soviet Union were Cold War adversaries! Both sides wanted a one-up supremacy in being the first country to go to the Moon and explore Space. With the threat of nuclear weapons so strong in the 1960s, the thought that an enemy would claim part of Space (to do whatever "evils") was very much a threat.

Land men on the moon and return them safely to earth by the end of the decade.

This was the "public" goal declared by president Kennedy.

However the underlying secret goal was to demonstrate which country could throw the largest hydrogen bomb possible the farthest distance and hit a target accurately - without having to actually throw a real hydrogen bomb (and risk starting a war). By getting men to the moon we proved we could deliver any possible hydrogen bomb anywhere we wanted to put it on earth.

The outcome of the Arms race was the result of the treaties of SALT I and SALT II which in simple terms are the reduction of the weapons of mass destruction (WMD) the space race on the other hand it finish with the treaty of the construction International Space Station (ISS)

Buran.

That was the name of their main useable one. (Got destroyed when a roof collapsed on it.)

In the past controlling the lands was key to victory. Then controlling the seas was key to victory. Then controlling the sky was the key to victory. After the ATOMIC AGE came in 1945...controlling outer space became the new key for obtaining victory.

It cannot be said that the US definitely won the space race. A common definition of the "space race" during the 1960s was making the first moon first landing. The US is the only nation to have put a man on the moon. However, although the 'space race' was generally interpreted in the US as 'the race to put a man on the moon', this was a self invented definition. The Soviet Union had no manned moon landing program during the period of NASA's push to develop the Apollo missions. The act of getting to the moon was certainly a great achievement, but it was a program in itself, rather than part of a greater plan. Having attained the goal, the US public soon tired of the whole thing, and the moon project was abandoned.

On the other hand, Russia won the race to launch the first live creatures into space. Sputnik 5, also known as Korabl-Sputnik 2, was the second test flight of the Russian Vostok spacecraft. It was launched on 19 August 1960, and carried two dogs, Belka and Strelka, 40 mice, 2 rats and numerous plants. The spacecraft returned to earth on August 20, and all animals were recovered safely.

Russia also put the first man in space (Yuri Gagarin 1961). They put the first satellite in space (sputnik 1-1957) and they put the first space station in space (1971). Russia also performed the first space walk and had launched the first female in space. They also were the first to land a vehicle on the moon, the Luna 2. Wile the US was socncentrating its efforts on getting man to land on the moon, the Soviet Union, in cooperation with the European Space Agency, was achieving major successes in manned orbital satellites and the study of the effects of long term space missions on the cosmonauts.

(N.B. While it's mostly referred to as Russia it was officially called the Soviet Union until 1991, though Russia is recognized as the continuing legal personality of the Soviet Union.)

The space race was the race to land a man on the moon and bring him back safely to Earth. Because both nations (United States & The USSR) thought they would lose the race they made a treaty that stated that no weapons what so ever would be brought onto the moon.

Sputnik 1, the first man-made satellite launched successfully into orbit, was sent into space by the Soviet Union in 1957. During this year, Dwight D. Eisenhower was In the middle of his two-term Presidency, and Nikita Khrushchev was in his 5th year of Premiership of the Soviet Union.

sputnik

It is the US who won the Space Race because they had Neil Armstrong being the first man on the moon. The USSR did, however, achieve a number of significant firsts such as the first man and woman in space, first manned and unmanned orbit of the earth, first spacewalk (although a crude one), first satellite, and first object to go into solar orbit (although this was an error - it was intended for the moon.)

The goal was to get man on the moon by the end of the decade

The Space Race was linked to the Cold War because the Space Race grew out of the Cold War between the U.S and the Soviet Union. For a half-century, the 2 superpowers competed to be the best in the field of space exploration. The race began because both countries wanted to be able to fire weapons across the ocean, put satellites into space to spy on each other, and to show scientific excellence by putting a man on the moon.

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The Space Race - was a 'competition' between Russia and america - to (1) put a man into space and (2) land a man on the moon. In order to do this - both countries had to speed up the development of technology in order to ensure the safety of their respective astronauts. Up until the start of the space-race, computers were huge banks of valves - which were replaced by the newly developed silicon chips.

By today's standard though - the whole computer system inside the Apollo rocket - could fit on a single modern Integrated Circuit !

Partnership.

Just listen Russians and don't blame Russian International Space Station, you use it too.

For fame

Even though there were no shots fired during the Cold War, there was a atmosphere of competition that was deadly serious between the Soviet Union and the United States. This tension was reflected perfectly through the space race, as both countries fought to be first in each of the steps which culminated in 1969 when the US put the first man on the moon.

The only atomic bombs dropped on any nation during a military conflict were the two atomic bombs dropped on August 9 and 6 in 1945. There have been test bombs dropped by Russia and the United States but not on people or cities. Therefore the answer to your question is that there have been no bombs dropped after the space race or since World War 2. The reason is obvious: It causes immense devastation and deaths instantly and for many decades afterward. No nation truly wants to use an atomic bomb. The Atomic Race is basically over and thousands of atomic bombs have been dismantled in the USA and world wide. There are still nuclear missiles around but they are meant for defense against nations who use them as offense against another nation (North Korea is a current treat of this.)

It is indeed very difficult to tell the amount, as the Soviet Union never tell their truths sbout their expenditure on their space flights or space missions. The U.S.A may have spent over 24 Billion Dollars.