HISTORY
THE COLD WAR ERA
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Question
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The United States was the first to have a man land on Mars.
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The Soviet Union was the first to have a man land on the moon.
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The United States launched an unmanned satellite, Sputnik, into space.
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The Soviet Union launched an unmanned satellite, Sputnik, into space.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The USSR rocketed to the lead in the Cold War’s “Space Race” with the launch of Sputnik, a basketball-sized satellite that became the first manmade object to orbit the Earth. On October 4, 1957, the USSR launched Sputnik, the first artificial satellite to orbit Earth.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the United States and the Soviet Union, to achieve superior spaceflight capability. It had its origins in the ballistic missile-based nuclear arms race between the two nations following World War II.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Sputnik launch marked the start of the space age and the US-USSR space race, and led to the creation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
Detailed explanation-4: -The fact that the Soviets were successful fed fears that the U.S. military had generally fallen behind in developing new technology. As a result, the launch of Sputnik served to intensify the arms race and raise Cold War tensions.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Soviet Union sent a spacecraft over the surface of the moon. It flew approximately 5, 000 kilometers overhead two days after launch. Vostok 1: April 12, 1961-Yuri Gagarin simultaneously becomes the first person in space and the first person to orbit the Earth.