Space

History Of Space Exploration

By Warmak99

  • Cold War

    Cold War
    In the 1950's The Soviet Union and The U.S. had a great rival against each other for power. This was called the "Cold War." This war was important because it ws to show basically the strength of the countries and which was best.

  • Sputinic

    Sputinic
    The first Artifical Satelite to be launched into space. Was launched by Souvet Union. This was imporatnt because this scared the U.S. that the Soviet Union could launch missels from space and attack.

  • N.A.S.A

    N.A.S.A
    NASA is a U.S. group in charge of learning more about space.
    This was important because NASA has taught us more about space.

  • First Man man in Orbit

    First Man man in Orbit
    Commonaut Yuri Gagunn was the first man to orbit the earth .
    This was important because it put Soviet Union in the lead in the cold war.

  • John F. Kennedy Speech about Space

    John F. Kennedy Speech about Space
    John F. Kennedy made a speech about before the decades ends we should make a goal to put the 1st man on the moon.
    This ws important because his speech is what helped create nasa and without nasa we would barely know anything about space.

  • First Man To Orbit the Earth from U.S.

    First Man To Orbit the Earth from U.S.
    John H. Glenn Jr. was the first man to orbit the EARTH x3.
    This was important because the U.S. had been afraid that the Soviet Union was in the lead, but then John made a full orbit around the earth x3 which made him a hero to the U.S. and put them back in the lead.

  • First Women in Space

    First Women in Space
    Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova wqas the first women to go in space. She was from the soviet union. This was important because back then women didn't have many rights and that was an accomplishment to the women.

  • First Man On The Moon

    First Man On The Moon
    This was when Neil Armstrong landed on the moon.
    This was important because this basically ment that the U.S. won the war. But most important it was the first man on the moon.

  • First Space Station

    First Space Station
    A space station is a spacecraft capable of supporting a crew, which is designed to remain in space. This was important because now people could go into space and learn more stuff that they couldn't learn down on Earth.

  • Space Shuttles

    Space Shuttles
    Space Shuttles were a shuttle into space that could carry up to 350 people. This was created by NASA.
    This was important because now astronaunts could go into space fix things and explore.