UNIVERSE
SPACE EXPLORATION
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Question
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Apollo 13’s failure
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Vostok 1 carrying 1st man in outer space
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Apollo 11 landing on the moon
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Vostok 6 carrying 1st woman in outer space
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Detailed explanation-1: -The competition gained Western public attention with the “Sputnik crisis", when the USSR achieved the first successful satellite launch, Sputnik 1, on October 4, 1957.
Detailed explanation-2: -Apollo 8: December 21, 1968-This was the first successful crewed mission to orbit the moon, turning the tide of the Space Race.
Detailed explanation-3: -By landing on the moon, the United States effectively “won” the space race that had begun with Sputnik’s launch in 1957. For their part, the Soviets made four failed attempts to launch a lunar landing craft between 1969 and 1972, including a spectacular launch-pad explosion in July 1969.
Detailed explanation-4: -Apollo 11 was the first mission to land humans on the Moon. It fulfilled a 1961 goal set by President John F. Kennedy to send American astronauts to the surface and return them safely to Earth before the end of the decade.
Detailed explanation-5: -The great prize of the Space Race, however, was a successful manned landing on the Moon. This was first completed by US astronauts in July 1969. Six years later the US and USSR launched their first joint space mission, Apollo-Soyuz, which effectively ended the Space Race.