Space Race

• Cause of the Space Race

  Propaganda - both sides want to show their superiority
• Firsts of the USSR

  1957 - Sputnik 1 launched by USSr

  1958 - Sputnik 2 launched carrying Laika - a dog!

  1961 - Soviet Yuri Gagarin becomes first man in space
• JFK's promise


  1961 - by the end of the decade America would put a man on the moon
• 1969


  Moon landing - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become first man to walk on the moon