Space Race and cuban Missile crisis

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  1. 3. Race: A Cold War competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to achieve major accomplishments in space, aiming to prove scientific and political superiority.
  2. 6. 1: The first artificial satellite, launched by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957. Its launch shocked the U.S. and began the Space Race.
  3. 8. Rocket Equation: A mathematical formula created by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky that helps engineers calculate how rockets work and how much fuel they need.
  4. 11. Glenn: The first American to orbit Earth, completing his mission aboard Friendship 7 in 1962.
  5. 12. Armstrong: The American astronaut who became the first human to step on the Moon during Apollo 11.
  6. 14. Program: The first U.S. human-spaceflight program (1958–1963), designed to send astronauts into space and bring them back safely.
  7. 16. Shepard: The first American astronaut in space, flying on Mercury-Redstone 3 in 1961.
  8. 17. 11: The 1969 mission that carried astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins to the Moon, resulting in the first Moon landing.
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  1. 1. Program: NASA’s second human-spaceflight program (1961–1966) that prepared astronauts and technology for future Moon missions.
  2. 2. 1: The Soviet spacecraft that carried Yuri Gagarin into orbit, completing the first human spaceflight.
  3. 4. Aldrin: The second astronaut to walk on the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission.
  4. 5. Program: NASA’s program to land humans on the Moon and return them safely, created to accomplish Kennedy’s goal.
  5. 7. F. Kennedy’s Moon Speech: A 1961 speech in which President Kennedy set the goal for the United States to land a person on the Moon before 1970.
  6. 9. V Rocket: A powerful multistage rocket used in Apollo missions. It launched astronauts toward the Moon and is one of the strongest rockets ever built.
  7. 10. Gagarin: A Soviet cosmonaut who became the first human to orbit Earth on April 12, 1961, aboard Vostok 1.
  8. 13. 2: A Soviet spacecraft that became the first human-made object to reach the Moon in 1959.
  9. 15. Module: The small spacecraft that carried two astronauts from lunar orbit down to the Moon’s surface and back to the Command Module.