Space Program

Space race

• not between friends.
• between the 2 most powerful nations in the world, the U.S and the Soviet Union.
• Greatest rival to the U.S in politics and millitary powers

Began the space race

• When the soviet launched the satellite sputnik I into Orbit

The role of the competition play in the space race.

• Because it encouraged people to do more when they saw that the competitors were achieving more.
  

  

Competitors

• Soviet Union

Apollo Program

• The American effort to land astronauts on the moon

Events:

1. Sputnik I- 1957

2. NASA formed 1958

3. Yuri Gagarin orbits Earth- April 12,1961

4. First american in space- 1961

5. John Glenn orbits Earth- 1962

6. First human on moon- July 20, 1969

Was the Apollo program successful in meeting president Kennedy's challenge?

• Yes
• After the speech President John F. Kennedy launched an enormous program of space exploration and scientific research.