The Space Race

Name _________________________________Date _________________Period __________ THE SPACE RACE U.S.S.R. 1970 U.S. July 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong is first man to walk on the moon Dec. 21, 1968 First staffed spacecraft to orbit the moon Feb. 3, 1966 Luna 9 was the first spacecraft to soft-land on the moon June 3, 1965 Edward White made the first U.S. March 18, 1965 Alexei Leonov spends 12 minutes space walk outside of his Voskhod spacecraft performing the first spacewalk. 1965 June 16, 1963 Valentia Tereshkova, the first woman in space. Feb. 20, 1962 John Glenn, Jr. the first American in orbit, and orbited the Earth three times. Aug. 6, 1961 Vostok 2 was launched, carrying Gherman Titov, the first day long Soviet space flight. May 25, 1961 President John F. Kennedy addresses Congress and challenges the nation to go to the Moon before the end of the decade. May 5, 1961 Alan B. Shepard becomes the first American in space. April 12, 1961 Yuri Gagarin orbits the Earth once and becomes the first man in space January 1, 1958 Explorer 1, the first American 1960 satellite to reach orbit, Jan. 2, 1959 Luna 1, the first human made satellite to orbit the moon, was launched by the USSR October 1, 1958 NASA was created November 3, 1957 USSR launches Sputnik 2, which carried first animal in space, a dog named Laika into orbit October 4, 1957 USSR launches first satellite in space, call Sputnik 1955 1. What happened earlier? A. First Russian spacewalk B. First American Spacewalk _________________ 2. How long after USSR launched the first satellite into space was NASA created? ________________________ 3. What is the span(number of years) shown on this timeline? ________________________________________ 4. Who was the first American in space? _________________________________________________________ 5. What year was the first spacewalk?___________________________________________________________ 6. What happened earlier? A. First Russian satellite in space B. First American satellite in space __________ 7. How many years did it take for President John F. Kennedy’s promise to come true?______ by how many months?____ 8. Sally Ride became the first U.S. woman in space in 1983. Could you put this event on the timeline above? (Yes/No) 9. What is this timeline about? ______________________________________________________________________ 10. What happened in 1963? __________________________________________________________________ Name _________________________________Date _________________Period __________ THE SPACE RACE Figure A: NASA’s Budget as Percentage of Federal Budget Terms to Know Trend A trend is a general direction or tendency in a chart or graph. They are good for predicting the future. 1. From the timeline, when did President Kennedy promise to go to the moon?___________________ when was Kennedy’s promise fulfilled?_____________________ 2. From the chart, what is the general trend of NASA’s spending as a percentage of the federal budget? _______________________________ 3. From Between which two years was there a dramatic rise in government expenditures for space activities? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Figure B: NASA Budget - Dollars v. Percentage Now look at a different graph showing Both NASA’s budget as percentage of Federal Budget and Dollars. 4. Has NASA’s spending decreased or increased since landing on the moon? __________________________________ 5. What year has NASA spent the most money? __________________________________________________________ 6. Why is figure A. more significant than figure B, when looking at America’s goal of placing a human on the moon? ______________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________.

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