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Soviet Space Race Compared to Animal Farm
Harutyun Sahakyan
English 10A Period 1
February 11, 2013 The space race first began between the Soviet Union and the United States around 1957 when the Soviet Union launched their first satellite, Sputnik 1, into space to orbit the earth. It ended around 1975 with the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project, a joint space mission between the Soviet Union and the United States. The space race compares to Animal Farm, because of how the Soviet Union failed multiple times in building an aircraft that could reach the moon just like how the animals in the book failed twice in building the windmill. It is considered that the United States won the space race in 1969 when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon with Michael Collins circling above in the Apollo 11 space mission. This essay compares the Soviet Union 's attempts to build a functioning aircraft to reach the moon during the Soviet space race to the animals in Animal Farm attempting to build a working windmill. Sergei Pavlovich Korolev was the lead rocket engineer for the soviets during the space race, while Wernher Von Braun was the lead for the U.S. rocket program. The beginning and first mission of the space race started with the Soviet launch of Sputnik the first ever satellite to be launched into space, it was meant to be a satellite to orbit around the earth and was a success. The Soviets were not sure wether it was a success or not when it was first launched, so they didn 't immediately celebrate. They waited and after about an hour and a half they heard the beeps from the satellite over the radio and celebrated a successful mission. The U.S. responded about four months after Sputnik 's launch by successfully launching their first satellite named Explorer. This was about the end of the early Space Race and the mid Space Race began in the 1960 's. By 1959 the U.S. began to grow more sure that the Soviets would be the first to send someone into space and they were right. As the Soviet flight technology was



Cited: PAGE BECAUSE I WAS TOO BUSY DOING THE MAIN SECTION OF THE ESSAY SO SORRY,BUT HERE IS WHERE I GOT MOST OF MY INFORMATION. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Race

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