send the first human to space. Russia pulled ahead early in the game with the successful launch of the first manmade satellite‚ Sputnik 1 in 1957. On the twelfth of April in 1961‚ The Soviet Union finally won the race to space when they sent Yuri Gagarin to space in the spacecraft Vostok 1. Prior to the launch however the Soviets sent a prototype of the Vostok 1 with a life sized dummy‚ Ivan Ivanovich‚ and his companion a dummy dog named Zvezdochka. With the success of the dummy launch‚ the spacecraft
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characterized by a competition to send living beings into space. This started with the 1957 orbit around Earth by a dog named Laika in a Soviet spacecraft (Barksdale)‚ and was succeeded by the Soviets’ successful mission to send a human being‚ Yuri Gagarin‚ in orbit around Earth in 1961(“Space Race”). The following year‚ John Glenn became the first American astronaut to orbit around the planet and the Apollo project to send a man on the moon had commenced (“Space Race”). According to the History Channel
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Space is the final frontier 1. space: -outer space = region beyond earth 2. final: -last‚ ultimate‚ no more frontier beyond this 3. frontier: -an outer limit‚ especially one in which the opportunities for research and development have not been exploited 4. History of space exploration: simple overview of western countries – http://www.spacekids.co.uk/spacehistory/ includes China’s endeavors – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_space_exploration 5. Can space be considered an unexplored
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Government- The Cuban Missile Crisis The great arms race during the 1950s and the ‘60s caused the conflict of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 which strained the nation and the world. The fourteen days that the United States government and the Russian government interacted emphasized the seriousness and the intense rivalry between the two super powers. The idea of a mass nuclear war‚ a third world War‚ or the wipe out of the whole population of Earth developed and loomed in the minds of the government
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To Infinity and Beyond? The Future of U.S.-Russia Cooperation in Space Arman Arkelyan‚ John McClure‚ Robert Schur‚ Elena Sidorova “More than by any other imaginative concept‚ the mind of man is aroused by the thought of exploring the mysteries of outer space. Through such exploration‚ man hopes to broaden his horizons‚ add to his knowledge‚ improve his way of living on earth.[1]” President Dwight Eisenhower‚ 20 June 1958
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Space Exploration Pros and Cons In 1961‚ the world was changed forever‚ Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin entered the spacecraft Vostok 1 and traveled into space. Following him in the same year‚ was the American astronaut Alan Shepard in Freedom 7. Then in 1969 the crew of the Apollo 11 mission landed on the Moon. This space race in the 1960s helped to light the fire of man’s interest in outer space and has lead mankind to wonder if we could live away from the comfort and safety of planet Earth. Many
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org/enumaelish.html. Print] [Hugh G‚ Evelyn-White. tr. Hesiod. Theogony and Works and Days. Cambrige‚ MA.. Harvard University Press: London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Print] [Doyle‚ Bernard. Creation Myths. Encyclopedia Mythica. Web 03 Mar. 1997.] [Gagarin‚ Michael. Creation. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome. 3rd V. New York: Oxford University Press. 2010. Print] [Lindemans‚ Micha F. Utnapishtim. Encyclopedia Mythica. Web 07 Sep. 1997.]
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The Cold War happened between the years of 1945 and 1991‚ it was a time of military‚ political‚ and economic tension between the Soviet Union and the United States. Just after the second World War had ended‚ complications came up around the area of international power‚ who would gain more power and who would lose power. The main thing the Soviet Union attempted to do during this shifting of power was they tried to gain more territory in order to solidify their spot as a world wide power‚ while the
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What was God’s purpose in creating the world‚ creating us‚ and creating the space that the world exists in? There is no doubt that God created everything we see around us‚ and even the things we cannot see‚ he created them all. Colossians 1:16 says‚ "For everything‚ absolutely everything‚ above and below‚ visible and invisible...everything got started in him and finds its purpose in him." God also created human beings in his image‚ and sent us out into all the world making disciples of all nations
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The loss of the space shuttle Columbia prompted an investigation to determine the factors that contributed to the accident. Essential to the investigation was collecting and analyzing data associated not only with the Columbia accident‚ but that of the 1987 loss of the space shuttle Challenger. Evidence from the investigation indicated that lessons learned from the Challenger were not necessarily applied to the shuttle program and may have been instrumental in the loss of the Columbia. It was determined
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