Thursday, March 22, 2012

History: The Space Race


Watch this documentary.

Read this timeline about the space race and respond as indicated below.


Identify the importance of the following contributors to space exploration and the Cold War:

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Robert Goddard

Wernher von Braun

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Bert the Turtle

Sergei Korolev

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Yuri A. Gagarin

John F. Kennedy

Alan Shepard

Valentina Tereshkova

John Glenn

Richard Nixon

Laika the Dog


More Questions!

In what culture were rockets first used as a weapon?

How is rocketry connected to the U.S. National Anthem?


How were Nazis connected to the U.S. Space Program?


What two functions were built into Sputnik 1? List them and draw a picture of the satellite.



There is a connection between ICBMs (military missiles) and some of the first spaceflight records (both Soviet and U.S.). What is it?

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