A5 THE HISTORY OF RUSSIA THE COLD WAR SPACE RACE – CLASS 5 ENCORE – FALL 2011 – SPRING 2012 Joe Boisvert – Gulf Coast State College
A 5 The Space Race Cold War class 5 The Space War
Sep 03, 2014
Attempt to answer did the Cold War start the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union. Broad overview of the space race and major miles stones such as the first in space the first human in space and the trip to the moon.
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A5 THE HISTORY OF RUSSIA THE COLD WAR SPACE RACE – CLASS 5 ENCORE – FALL 2011 – SPRING 2012
Joe Boisvert – Gulf Coast State College
Nazi Space Program
The official picture: A4 (V2) as a missile. According to an unofficial agenda from Peenemünde this was only a first step on the road to space flight. Sketch made in Peenemünde.
Both the USSR and the US Benefited From German Scientist
The US let in German Scientist before, during and after the WW2. We developed the “bomb” first in great part due to German Scientist. German Rocket Science also key!
The USSR Captured Many German Scientist after WW2 – Due to Spying and the use of Captured German Scientist and Equipment the USSR developed Atomic Weapons Capability and started Space Race
Dr. Werner von Braun, left, the head of the Nazi rocket program, was brought to America after the war because our government considered his knowledge and expertise too vital to fall into enemy hands.
The Space Race – Soviet vs US
During the Cold War, both the United States and the Soviet Union endeavored to demonstrate their power.
The space race served as an opportunity for the two nations to showcase their scientific and technological capabilities.
Amidst propaganda, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. competed for superiority in space as they constantly tried to top each other.
Spying From Space
The race to employ spy satellites has been ongoing. It dates back to the very beginnings of the space age. The Soviets and ourselves were locked in a data gathering race that is still taking place at this very moment, but the stage has changed and there are a lot more players now.
Fighting and Spying from Space
The very first space craft to have a weapon on it was launched from the old Soviet Union.
The MOL program in the 60’s the US was able to see an object that was under 2 inches in size from 100 miles up in spaceThe Soviet Union later developed one capable of seeing an object 3” from 300 Miles
US had U-2 Spy PlanesDuring the cold war we developed the U-2 spy plane. In its day it was a miracle.
It could fly at over 60,000 feet and was thought to be safe since it was felt that this was beyond the range of Soviet antiaircraft missiles.
We began flying this plane over the old Soviet Union to gather data on their missiles and such, but as we did, the Soviets were advancing the capabilities of their defensives and were able to increase the range of their antiaircraft missiles and shoot down one of our U-2 spy planes.
Soviet Zenit Spy Satellite
Both countries had secret spying program based in Space from almost the beginning
. Then Space Flight with Animals.
Due to the fear of burn-up in reentry and contamination by space germs, the first space flights planned were in the form of unmanned satellite launches
In 1957 the Soviets successfully launched the unmanned satellite, Sputnik I, into orbit sending millions of Americans into shock
Sputnik Program – Soviet Union
The second Sputnik satellite (Sputnik 2) was launched onNovember 3, 1957. It carried a dog named Laika. Information was sent back for about a week and the dog was put to sleep.
The last Sputnik (Sputnik 3) was launched on May 15, 1958. It was in orbit for 2 years. This Sputnik was intended to be a space laboratory to study the Earth’s magnetic field and radiation belt. This one could actually hold cameras and other data transmitters. It was the most technological of the three.
The Sputnik satellites started the space travel development. That is how the U.S. started to develop new spacecrafts. If it weren’t for Sputnik, we wouldn’t have been the first people on the moon.
In conclusion, Sputnik started the space race. It started a huge revolution. Sputnik changed our world.
Cold War rival USSR had flown cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin first -- less than a month before on a flight that was higher and longer -- and some in the nascent NASA thought the space race was already lost.
Sheppard First US Astronaut in Space
Crowds of Americans watch the first Manned Flight
Cape Canaveral, Florida
The succesful launching of the Shenzhou V, the Divine Vessel, on 15 October 2003, withtaikonaut Yang Liwei on board, marked a giant leap forward in the Chinese space program that saw its origins in the 1960s.
Chinese Space Program
The launch is part of a more encompassing space program that includes space walks, the docking of a capsule with a space module and the launch of a permanent space lab.
China launched its second manned spacecraft,
Kennedy's goal was accomplished with the Apollo 11 mission when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed their Lunar Module (LM) on the Moon on July 20, 1969 and walked on its surface
The United States Reaches the Moon 1969
Moon Walk 1969
“Most of the space program were related to the Cold War crises of the early 1960s, in which space flight served as a surrogate for face-to-face military confrontation
The end of the Cold War rivalry in space between the two great superpowers is easy to spot: It was the famous handshake between Soviet space commander Alexei Leonov and Nasa astronaut Tom Stafford when their two vehicles docked together in orbit.
The End Class Five
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