Space race the battle between the nations. Sputnik was the creations of the USSR that started the space race and also put them ahead. The US tried to catching up for a long time in the end they passed. Each sides head plenty of failed advancers in the way they built the rockets and plenty of successful too. The space race was a fairy competition between the US USSR.…
Many people have dreamed about going into space. It is filled with many stars and constellations, planets, the moon, and many other wonders. Kennedy's purpose was to send America to the moon and in order to do that, he needed support from the people of the United States. John Kennedy uses the rhetoric devices repetition, pathos, and allusion in order to persuade people to support America going to the moon.…
“Apollo 11” Written By:John Drennan “One small step for a man,one giant leap for mankind”-Neil Armstrong. Do you know why Apollo 11 is so important?Today I’ll be giving you three reasons why the Apollo 11 is so important. My first reason why the Apollo 11 is so important is because on May 25,1961 president John F. Kennedy had a dream. John's dream was to land a man on the moon and safely return him back to earth.…
President was the first to ask Congress to approve more than 22 billion dollars for project Apollo. This project had one main goal that President Kennedy wanted to accomplish. He wanted to have an American man land on the moon. President Kennedy wanted to have this goal accomplished by a certain time limit. He wanted to land the American man on the moon before the decade was over.…
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you-ask what you can do for your country (3). His commitment to combat the spread of communism led to escalating America’s involvement in the conflict that was happening in Vietnam at the time. Kennedy sent supplies, financial assistance, and 15,000 military advisers over to Vietnam. His projects of massive income tax cuts and sweeping civil rights were not passed until after his death (3). He proposed a joint Soviet mission to the moon (9). On May 1961, he committed the United States to land a man on the moon by the end of his term and by the end of the 1960s. In 1963 he had concerns about the cost of the space programs, so he made a proposal with the Soviet Union on a joint expedition to the moon. Unfortunately, he did not live to see this achievement; however, his advocacy of the space program caused the successful launch of the first American space flights that were…
One of his best accomplishments was preventing a nuclear war between the U.S., the Soviet Union, and Cuba. After the U.S. failed to overthrow Fidel Castro, the Soviet Union made an agreement with Cuba. The Soviets placed their nuclear weapons in Cuba to prevent the U.S. from invading again. On October 22, 1962, many days after debating what to do, Kennedy decided to create a naval block around Cuba, this was to stop the Soviet Union from bringing in nuclear weapons and other military supplies. At this point, they were on a brink of a nuclear war. However, with Kennedy’s leadership and firmness, peace was reached. Kennedy proved to be a great leader in a time of crisis. Another great achievement was when Kennedy established the Peace Corps in March 1961. This program sent volunteers to other countries to promote world peace. This program promoted the spirit of service and getting the younger generation involved in doing good for the world. Since it’s creation, the Peace Corps now has over 210,000 volunteers in 138 countries. The volunteers have been working on important issues such as AIDs, education, and economic growth. Another one of Kennedy’s great accomplishments was putting man on the Moon. After setting his goal with Congress, Kennedy said, “No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind or more important for the long-range…
Whichever nation managed to do this first would have claim to having supremacy in space. When approached with the task to actually be able to put a man on the moon, which was the ultimate goal, the United States took steps to reach the goal. The first step was to be able to put a man in orbit around the earth. When this was achieved, NASA studied the works of many Greek scientists to better understand the distance, mass and gravitational pull of the moon. Furthermore, the recruited German scientists who had already made advances in rocket science.…
The space race began in 1957 after the cold war. The Soviet Union and The United States of America were fighting for superiority in the cold war. They thought that the first in space would be more superior. This was only the beginning of the race for space.…
On December 21st, 1968 Apollo 8 launched off of the surface of the Earth. It was the second mission in the United States Apollo space program involving human spaceflight. Three brave men departed the planet on the spacecraft, Lunar Module Pilot William Anders, Command Module Pilot James Lovell, and Commander Frank Borman. These brave astronauts made history in several ways; they became the first human beings to be launched out of low Earth orbit, they were the first humans too see the entire Earth as a planet, the first to witness the far side of the moon with their own eyes, and the first to view Earthrise. The mission of course received ample press coverage from newspapers, magazines, and television stations from all over the country.…
“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” With these eleven words astronaut Neil Armstrong brought the greatest technological race on Earth to its end. But, he did so standing on the moon, giving America one of the most illustrious victories in its short and dense history. Leaving behind the Soviet Union, the United States literally rocketed past their competitor to claim supremacy in the Cold War (a silent war for power). However, both countries achieved success in advancing technology to heights never before seen or even thought of; despite lying in the shadows of two world wars and the Great Depression of the world. The Space Race (1957-1969) between rising powers United Sates and the Soviet Union embodied the battle for world supremacy during the Cold War but took technology to the most significant heights in a shorter time than ever before in human history.…
The Space Race came to an end in 1975, with the launching of the Apollo-Soyuz project, the first US-Soviet space mission. The two nations have collaborated on space exploration ever since. The Space Race also produced considerable benefits for human society even though it fuelled tension from the Cold War. Space exploration required rapid improvements and advances in a range of fields, including telecommunications, solar power, and computer science. Today, many artificial satellites orbit the Earth and provide us with fast communication, television, GPS and weather data.…
Neil Armstrong and the moon landing: America celebrated the moon landing and the defeat of the Soviets in the space race. Armstrong was the astronaut to first make it to the moon from America.…
In the 1960's there were people who wanted to land on the moon. They wanted to take a rocket ship and have a human land on the moon and then safely return them home. The motivation for this project was received by President Dwight D. Eisenhower as he purposed the idea. It was later accomplished during John F Kennedy Administration to complete the Apollo project.…
Throughout history people have strived to improve technology and discover more information about the world and its universe. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union and the United States competed against each other in order to prove they were superior in space exploration. Being the first to send a satellite into space or land a man on the moon ultimately demonstrates advanced science programs, technology, and economic status. Therefore when the Soviet Union launched the first hand made satellite, the United States raced to build, test, and launch one of their own. After several failures, the United States had their first success on March 17, 1958 and within the next few months, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was founded.…
This was brought upon by a desire to simple go to the moon, but ended up being a world-wide space race to see what nation could do it first.…