Sputnik was a satellite that was made by the USSR and was launched October 4, 1957. It was made so that the USSR could be better than the US and it worked because it made us feel inferior to the USSR most likely because it was the first one launched that was man-made. After they made they had started the space race. So we decided to try and make our own satellite to try and beat them but a lot of our attempt had failed. On the date of January 31, 1958 we finally got to launch our own first satellite into space.
Thanks for the summary Jeff. I missed that day in class and you blog really helped me learn about it, its so intresting!
ReplyDeleteI like how you said that i started the space race. And Alo How Most of our attempts failed.
ReplyDeleteliked how in not only this post but how you had good dates on how spudnik was launched; i would also like to say that the United States caught up in the space race by the 1960's
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