Презентация "Space race"

Space race

• The  Space   Race   was  an informal competition  between  the  United   States   and  the  Soviet Union  that lasted from 1957 to 1975.

The first American man in space

• Alan   Shepard   was   the   first  American  to  fly  in   space and the second man in space after Yuri Gagarin of the USSR. The mission lasted just 15 minutes 22 seconds, and Alan Shepard was the only person on the flight. Mercury-Redstone 3, also known as Freedom 7, was launched by NASA on May 5, 1961.

The first American woman in space

• Sally   Ride  was the  first  American  woman  to go into  space  when she flew on the  space shuttle Challenger on June 18, 1983. Sally Ride was only the third female astronaut in space after two Russian (USSR) cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova and Svetlana Savitskaya.

President Kennedy

• President Kennedy wanted to win“the space race.” So, he challenged America to send astronauts to the moon and return them safely to the earth before the end of the 1960’s. In a speech before Congress, President Kennedy said: “We should do this, not because it is easy, but because it is hard.”

The first man on the moon

  Neil   Armstrong  was  the   first   man   to   walk   on   the   Moon . 

  He travelled there  on the  Apollo 11 spaceship on 20th July 1969. Neil Armstrong stuck an American Flag into the moon's surface, he said: «That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind», he collected lunar samples, and he described the moon's surface.

The astronauts who flew with Neil Armstrong to the moon were Edwin Aldrin, and Michael Collins.

On July 17, 1975, a famous first handshake between nations in space

• Astronaut Thomas P. Stafford (in foreground) and cosmonaut Aleksei A. Leonov make their historic handshake in space on July 17, 1975 during the joint U.S.-USSR Apollo Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) docking mission in Earth orbit.

Conclusion:

• Who was the winner? Who won the race?
• Some say the US won. Some say the Soviet Union won. We say that humanity as a whole won this.