1. Be the first group to unscramble this quote correctly:
is time Failure again this the intelligently begin to more opportunity
(Shout your table # when you get it!)

4. Why space? End of WW2 German Rocket Technology up for grabs
Power Struggle/Bragging Rights
Between USA and the then Soviet Union
Beginning of Cold War
Fight against beliefs
Capitalism vs. Communism
Kennedy pressured
Cuba

6. Why the Moon?
The Soviet Union launched the first satellite months before the US said it would.

7. Why the moon? Not because it is easy, because it is hard.
President John F Kennedy- Sept. 12, 1962
Kennedy Speech

8. How can the US beat the Soviet Union?
“Really means”
How can the US beat the Soviet Union?

9. Timeline of the Space Race
10/4/57
Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1
1st Satellite of Earth

11. Timeline of the Space Race
11/3/57
Soviet Union Dog, Laika
1st living thing to orbit Earth

12. Timeline of the Space Race
1/31/58
US launches Explorer 1 Satellite
Orbited 12 years

13. Timeline of the Space Race
10/1/58
NASA created
National Aeronautics Space Administration

14. Timeline of the Space Race
1959
US Luna 1 goes outside Earth’s orbit towards the moon

15. Timeline of the Space Race
1961
Yuri Gagarin
1st Human to orbit Earth

16. Timeline of the Space Race
Mercury 7 Astronauts
1st US Astronauts
John Glenn
Alan Shepard

17. Timeline of the Space Race
5/16/63
Soviet civilian Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman in space

18. Timeline of the Space Race
1963
Kennedy suggests joint program with the Soviet Union
He was assassinated before they could agree

19. Timeline of the Space Race
1965
1st spacewalk
Soviet Alexi Leonov
12 minutes

20. Timeline of the Space Race
1966
US’s Luna 9 Lands on the moon

21. Timeline of the Space Race
1967
4 Astronauts/Cosmonauts die

22. Timeline of the Space Race
7/20/69
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk on the moon
Michael Collins orbits the moon solo
No communication

23. Timeline of the Space Race
12/14/72
Eugene Cernan is the last man to touch the moon

25. Timeline of the Space Race
1998
International Space Station
Most expensive thing EVER build
100 BILLION dollars

26. Timeline of the Space Race
2016
Scott Kelly
A Year on the Space Station
Retired 2017
Twin Study repot out May 2017

27. Timeline of the Space Race
2017
Patty Whitson
Current Commander of the ISS
Biochemist from Iowa
Most days in space of any NASA astronaut ~560 days
3rd highest # of spacewalks

28. Timeline of the Space Race
Fall 2033
Mission to Mars

29. Space Race Review:
1. What country’s rocket technology was ‘stolen’ to get into space?
2. What single event was the main reason the US decided to go to the moon.
3. Who was the first person in space? Which country were they from?
4. What was Mercury 7?
5. When did the US first land on the moon?
6. How many years after the formation of NASA was the International Space Station launched?

30. When We Left Earth
When we Left Earth