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Explorer 6. 1959 September 14. USSR. First hard landing on another celestial body (the Moon ) Luna 2. 1959 October 7. USSR. First three-axis stabilised spacecraft. First photos of far side of the Moon, covering 70% of the surface invisible from Earth.
The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the United States and the Soviet Union, to achieve superior spaceflight capability. It had its origins in the ballistic missile-based nuclear arms race between the two nations following World War II and had its peak with the more particular Moon Race to land on the Moon between the US moonshot and Soviet moonshot programs.
An estimated 500 million people worldwide watched this event, the largest television audience for a live broadcast at that time. [1] [2] A Moon landing or lunar landing is the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon, including both crewed and robotic missions. The first human-made object to touch the Moon was Luna 2 in 1959.
Aug 23, 2023 · On January 31, 1958, a modified Redstone missile, the Jupiter-C, lofted America's first satellite, Explorer 1, into space. In March, the Navy's Vanguard succeeded in its third attempt to launch a satellite. Although still behind, America had rallied after its initial stumble and was now in the Space Race. Shooting for the Moon.
This infographic presents a timeline of space-related achievements by the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. between 1957 and 1969. A description of the timeline is below. On October 4, 1957, the U.S.S.R. launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite. On November 3, 1957, the U.S.S.R. placed the first animal in a spacecraft, the dog Laika aboard Sputnik 2.
Feb 22, 2010 · By landing on the moon, the United States effectively “won” the space race that had begun with Sputnik’s launch in 1957. For their part, the Soviets made four failed attempts to launch a ...
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Space Race. The United States directed the Space Race to landing humans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin (pictured) on the Moon. The Soviet Union, failing to land humans on the Moon, concentrated on low Earth orbit space stations such as Mir. The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War enemies, the Soviet Union (USSR) and ...
