The Space Race

Loss of money, astronauts, the environment,the ozone layer and the prime minister.

America and Russia

Yes

Nikita Khrushchev .

"For the first living creatures in space, US launched dogs into the captured V-2 rockets in 1946. The Russians were the first ones to launch living beings on their own. They launched a dog in 1957 in Sputnik 2 but technology did not exist to retrieve it so it died. They launched two more dogs later on in 1960 who orbited the Earth and returned. The Russians also sent turtles to fly around the moon in Zond 5 in 1968. The Russians also sent the first human in space who was Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in 1961 on Vostok 1 in 1962. The first dual-manned mission was also Russian and the first woman in space was also Russian. The Russians beat us to a launch with a multiple-personnel crew which did not have to wear space suits. The Russians also did the first space walk in 1965. The Russians were the first to reach the vicinity of the moon in 1959 and also to land a probe on the moon later in 1959. So as you can see, the Russians clearly kicked our behind in the Space Race. The only exception is Neil Armstrong landing on the moon first but that only happened because of USSR officially announcing that they were not concerned with putting a man on the moon." What the US did was create an arbitrary goal (putting man on the moon) AFTER they won it so they could feel good. They lost all the other "races", such as putting the first satellite in space, along with everything else mentioned above. The Russians DID win the "space race". But nothing would really change if the US won. The Yahoo!Answers information is misleading at best. The U.S. never launched dogs into space. http://www.onpedia.com/encyclopedia/Animals-in-space The first dual-manned mission was also Russian and the first woman in space was also Russian - publicity stunts with no planned follow-up. The Russians may have beat us to a launch with a multiple-personnel crew which did not have to wear space suits with Voskhod 1 but it was little more than a dangerous attempt to upstage the United States' upcoming two-seat Gemini missions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voskhod_1 The Russians also did the first space walk in 1965 in an attempt yet again to upstage publicly announced US plans but nearly ended in disaster when Leonov found himself unable to re-enter the Voskhod 2 spacecraft due to a hurriedly and poorly designed suit. http://www.astronautix.com/flights/voskhod2.htm The Russians were the first to reach the vicinity of the moon in 1959 but did not successfully land a probe there until January 1966. http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/lunarussr.html The Vosktok program was technological dead-end in which the cosmonauts had to eject and parachute to earth before the spacecraft landed. Voskhod was an adapted Vosktok without an ejection seat that crammed three and then two cosmonauts with an inflatable airlock that was a deathtrap waiting to happen - a stopgap until the Soyuz could fly. The first Soyuz caught up with the Soviets and ended in the death of its pilot. http://space.about.com/cs/deceasedcosmonaut/a/soyuz1crash.htm The Russians clearly did not kick our behind in the Space Race. The USSR only officially announced that they were not concerned with putting a man on the moon after their N-1 booster failed repeatedly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N1_rocket

He liked to toast his waffles with the rockets of apollo 11

Because its fun

Russias success with Sputnik

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The Space Race officially began with the Soviet Union's Sputnik 1 on October 4th, 1957. The Sputnik 1 was the first Earth Orbiting Artificial Satellite to be launched which caused great shock to the United States. The United States believed themselves to be the leader in Space Technology and were therefore surprised by the launch of the Sputnik Program except for the CIA and President Eisenhower, who were aware of this thanks to spy plane imagery. I can not find when the Space Race ended

USA:

Mercury - 1 person

Gemini - 2 person

Apollo - 3 person (designed for trip to the moon)

Lunar Lander (2 person) - designed to land on the moon

Skylab - an orbiting station, 3 people launched in an Apollo craft.

USSR

Vostok - 1 person

Soyuz - 2, 3 people

All of these were launched by liquid fuel expendable rockets.

Except for the Saturn 1B and Saturn V used for Project Apollo, all of the rockets were developed from military missiles.what the name was good and soosososoosososososososososo good/?/.......bye people

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USA & USSR

Dwight D. Eisenhower

No. Sputnik was launched in 1957

First satellite, man in space, animal in orbit and spacewalk. Also the first woman in space, the first robot on the moon, the first rover on another celestial body and the first space station.

They launched the first man made object into Earth orbit - the satellite Sputnik 1 on 4 October 1957.

Bras and G-strings

The Space Race was a technology race in the 1950s and 1960s between the USA and the USSR to outdo the other in space-related advances. The most dramatic result of this was the first moon landing, in 1969, which effectively ended the race.

The space race is important because it shows the competitive nature between humans.

it is a race between Russia and america to reach (get a man on) the moon.

the race was stared when russia launched a satellite called sputnik in 1957, the americans thought this could destroy them (by launching missiles from space) and the race for space started.

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.

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the Soviet Union and the United States struggling to outperform one another.