The space race

By Autumn leaf

  • President Kennedy

    President Kennedy
    Kennedy page 582
    1962 September was a year after the soviet cosmonaut. A guy named Yuri Gagarin, he was the first person to orbit the Earth. The president at the time President Kennedy he told over 40,000 people in a football stadium which is amazing at the Rice University in Houston Texas. The United States wanted to take control of the space race Kennedy had a plan for it.

  • What the moon Rocks tells us

    What the moon Rocks tells us
    The Moon page 618
    In 1969 the Apollo 11 had landed on the moon. The scientists waited on Earth waiting for their samples of the moon and rock. The samples that they are bringing back are going to tell us more about the history of the moon.

  • Preface from flight: My life in mission Control

    Preface from flight: My life in mission Control
    Preface page 614
    The American people wanted to know what it would be like if we sent an animal into space. On January 31, 1961, the American people sent a chimpanzee into space.

  • Dreaming of a Moonage

    Dreaming of a Moonage
    Dreaming page 599
    In 1969 there was a mission on July 20 called the Apollo 11. It was to put the first man on the moon. There was a worldwide broadcast showing it.

  • First to Fly

    First to Fly
    Fly page 591
    This will show you Yuri Gargarin's life during his April 1961 Vostok mission.

  • Seagull in flight

    Seagull in flight
    Seagull page 586
    In 1963 they were doing highly secretive preparation and training. Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to travel in space. Valentina circled the earth 48 times. She logged all of that more than American male astronauts combined.

  • Life one mars to become a reality in 2023,dutch firm claims

    Life one mars to become a reality in 2023,dutch firm claims
    Life on Mars page 623
    There is a reality TV show that would send volunteers to colonize Mars.

  • Aldrin on his lunar home, the Eagle

    Aldrin on his lunar home, the Eagle
    Aldrin page 605
    Aldrin talks about what happened on the Apollo 11 mission with the high points and all the hazards

  • Katherine Johnson: Trailblazer and Brilliant Mathematician

    Katherine Johnson: Trailblazer and Brilliant Mathematician
    Katherine Johnson page 626
    Katherine Johnson was a mathematician and work and NASA and NACA. She is a very smart woman.

  • Nearly forgotten story of the black women who helped land a man on the moon

    Nearly forgotten story of the black women who helped land a man on the moon
    Nearly forgotten story page 627
    The black and African American people who fought for their rights in stuff when they worked in NASA like their freedom to do things or anything like that