T minus 10...
October 4, 1957, Sputnik 1, First man-made satellite in orbit
9...
January 31, 1958, Explorer 1, First US satellite
8...
April 12, 1961, Vostok 1, First human in space
7...
May 5, 1961, Mercury-Redstone 3 / Freedom 7, First US man in space
6...
September 12, 1962, Rice Stadium Speech
"We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too."
-John F. Kennedy
5...
July 19, 1963, X-15, High-speed and atmospheric entry research
4...
March 18, 1965, Voskhod 2, first spacewalk
3...
December 15, 1965, Gemini 6A/7, First orbital rendezvous (two spacecraft 'meeting' in orbit)
(I really like this clip because you can see the astronaut in the other ship waving to the camera)
2...
February 3, 1966, Luna 9, First soft-landing on moon
1...
December 21, 1968, Apollo 8, First manned orbit of another celestial body
(the famous 'Eathrise' photo was taken on this flight)
Zero. Ignition... and Liftoff!
July 16, 1969, Apollo 11, First humans on moon
(The carrier, USS Hornet / CV-12, is now a museum ship docked in Almeda)
And so they did it.
Less than 8 years after the first human spaceflight, footsteps were made on the moon.
43 years separated that date from the first liquid-fueled rocket to fly.
A little over six decades separated Apollo 11 from the Wright Flyer.
3 comments:
I thought this blog post was very interesting and very uniquely formatted and thought out. You obviously put a lot of effort into choosing pictures and videos that clearly depicted your topic and the blurbs of text you had made the blog post even more well organized. The effort you put into your research and you interest in this topic is very apparent, Good job!
It's clear how passionate you are about this topic just by the amount of effort you put into it, with including all these different videos and pictures, and also formatting it in a clever "countdown." Really good work, but would've also loved to hear more of your own voice.
Interesting portrayal of the Space Race. I really like it because its very easy to understand and see what happened chronologically. I also like the mix between the newspaper articles and photos of spacecrafts that provides background to the article. How did the space race effect tensions between the US and the Soviet Union? Did it help or harm their relationship?
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