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Man on the Moon: the space race - Coggle Diagram
Man on the Moon: the space race
The space race
A race between the USA and the USSR to send man into space first
It was in the cold war and it was made for supremacy in technology
COLD WAR
it was a period of tentions between USA e USSR, after the second World War
there were cultural and political differences between two superpowers, because in USA there was democracy and in the USSR there was communism.
So, the world was divided into two blocks: there was wester block for USA and Eaterrn Bloc USSR
Steps of the space race
it began in 1955.
the sovied Union launched the first artificial satellite cold sputnik I in to space in 1957.
one month later, sputnik II was launchd in to space
the USA reacted imediately and afters sputnik I, four months after, explorer I lauched
in 1961 Yuri gagarin made history as the first man to orbit the earth
So, the USA lauched the first America in to space.
in 1969, neil armstrong was the first man on the Moon whive Apollo 11
The consequent
depace race was very expencive.
it accelerated the developmnt of education end tecnology: for exsample in biology medicine e the rocket tecnology
the GPS