Who won the space race? - Jeff Steers
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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-was-the-point-of-the-space-race-jeff-steers On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched the satellite Sputnik and, with it, an international space race. The United States and the Soviet Union rushed to declare dominance of space for 18 years, until the two countries agreed to a more collaborative model. The real winner? Science. Jeff Steers describes the history -- and the benefits -- of the space race. Lesson by Jeff Steers, animation by The Moving Company Animation Studio.
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I did.
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Sergei Koroliov, he made all the Russian advances in the space race, he deserves the merit of everything, the USSR did not capture any German scientists, but they did not want them, he was transferred to a gulag for investigating with liquid fuel, no Fossil, when he was released, he had many deficiencies in his body, that was what made his life more expensive, he made the designs of the bomber Tupolev Tu-2 and the Ilyushin Il-2 (the IL-2), during the 60 years had serious problems, and still worked, when he finally died in 1966, the USSR does not reach the moon because of the failure of the project, because it could not have been victoriously ended by the death of Koroliov, if there is someone we should thank By space race are 4 not two:
Koroliov: Satelite, First man and woman in Earth's orbit
Von Braun: Advances in Australian technology in the USA
The man who actually proposed the final design of the ship where the Apollo 11 would travel (I do not remember his name)
Fieseler: Who created the V-1 and the model that would be based (or at least I think) Von Braun to create the V-2 -
Imagine germany without those fucking wars
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Nope it's not Germans that designed the R-7 it's Soviet's own Chief Designer Sergei Kolorev
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Why the Soviets won. List of firsts. Tata Sky Development System (direct broadcast satellite)
Prime spacesuit, CH-1 (1931)
First multistage rocket (1947)
Creating the staged combustion (1949)
First spaceport, Baikonur Cosmodrome (1957)
First orbiting satellite, Sputnik 1 (1957)
First living being in orbit, the dog Laika on Sputnik 2 (1957)
First man-made object to leave the Earth's orbit, Luna 1 (1959)
First telemetry communication to and from off the ground, Luna 1 (1959)
First object to pass near the moon, and the first object in solar orbit Luna 1 (1959)
First satellite hit the moon, Luna 2 (1959)
First images of the dark side of the moon, Luna 3 (1959)
First satellite to be launched to Mars, Marsnik 1 (1960)
First rocket boots (1960)
Creating space food (1961)
First satellite to Venus, Venera 1 (1961)
First person to enter orbit around the Earth, Yuri Gagarin in Vostok 1 (1961)
First person to spend one day in orbit, Gherman Titov, Vostok 2 (1961)
First double flight, manned Vostok 3 and Vostok 4 (1962)
First probe on Mars, Mars 1 (1962) made the first pictures of Mars from space
First woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova, Vostok 6 (1963)
First spacewalk EVA, by Aleksei Leonov, Voskhod 2 (1965)
First probe to hit another planet Venus, Venera 3 (1965)
First probe landing on the moon and transmitted from there, Luna 9 (1966)
First probe into lunar orbit, Luna 10 (1966)
Creation of the Soviet Soyuz spacecraft model (1967), which is the only way that NASA and ESA send astronauts into space
First space bathroom (1967)
First meeting and unmanned docking, Cosmos 186/Cosmos 188 (1967) until 2006 this feat was not mimicked by the USA
Close coupling and exchange of crew in orbit, Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 (1969)
First extraterrestrial samples returned by Luna 16 (1970)
First robot on a celestial body, Lunokhod 1 (1970)
First data received from a probe on another planet (Venus), Venera 7 (1970)
First space station, Salyut 1 (1971)
First satellite to orbit Mars and make a descent, Mars 2 (1971)
Second robot on a celestial body, Lunokhod 2 (1973) and with the Lunokhod 1 is the only automated mobile laboratories that have explored the Moon guided by remote control until quite a while later
First satellite to orbit Venus and send data back to Earth Venera 9 (1975)
Creation of the coupling mechanism and docking of spacecraft, Androgynous Peripheral Attach System (1975)
Creating space shuttle Buran (1976), which can carry 30 tons (USA model only 25), return flights with load of 20 tons (USA only 15), with a support rate of 6.5 (compared to 5.5 of the USA model), its auxiliary maneuvering system rockets and use oxygen and kerosene fuel instead of solid (like the USA) and gives better performance. Besides the Buran shuttle could make unmanned missions (USA can't), with ejection seats (the USA model does not have) considered the safest and most effective of the history and design more effective and resilient thermal tiles that USA version
Creating the world's most powerful rocket: Energy (1976), capable of carrying 100 tons
First Spaceship supply unmanned, Progress (1978)
First radio telescope (1979)
First woman to walk in space , Svetlana Savitskaja in Salyut 7 (1984)
First shuttle in orbit to Earth independently, Buran (1984)
First multi module space station: Salyut 7 and Kosmos 1686 (TKS-4) (1985)
First crew to visit two space stations, Mir and Salyut 7 (1986) aboard Soyuz T-15
First permanent space station to orbit Earth, Mir (1986)
First crew to spend over a year on Mir, Vladimir Titov and Musa Manarov (1987) -
i heard the russians landing on the moon first.
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So....Who won the space race???
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Forgot about Alan Shephard
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Let's face it, the US only won the Space Race because it chose the conditions of winning after winning them. Had the N-1 been the first moon rocket (and it would be if the Soviets were not basically having their own little space race between themselves), the US would keep throwing the ball until it went somewhere first - no matter if it would be Mars, Venus, or Alpha Centauri. It would just keep the race going until it got the advantage.
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Who won the space race? Kerbals
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FU..
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FU.. no one fiscally made it to the moon ok.. this people are so stupid and dumb. You government is a lie and fucked up. American space program is based on Russian space agency.. get a life you American assholes.
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Wait so they world can use Nazi technology for a space race, but can;t use the possible valuable data the Nazi got by experimenting on humans?
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With the simple order for funding, we reach the moon. priorities!
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Imagine narrating that in the 40's Transatlantic accent. Lol!!
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Nobody won the space race, outer space doesn't exist. Duh.
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Fool says, "The Cold War was good because it created the competitive environment that gave us scientific advancements"__ My reply: You don't need a Cold War (& nuclear-war risk) to have advancements (why do you think we STILL have advancements & competition, EVEN AFTER the end of the cold war??). The competition of today comes in the form of competing private firms.
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If the space race continued do you think we would've gone much further in space technology? I mean think about it no one really gives two shits about it at the moment. It's not in high priority.
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I like how the question in the title was not actually answered. There are also several inaccuracies in the video. It is stated that we (the US) had barely caught up before the Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space. We didn't "barely catch up". If anything, we had the lead (even though it didn't seem like it to the majority of the US populace). We had more satellites, as well as very monumental ones, such as Tiros-1 or Echo-1. Even in the lunar probe race, the competition was neck in neck. I also like how he claims that several more cosmonauts flew into space before John Glenn. Good job mistaking one person (Gherman Titov) for multiple people, while also forgetting the first 2 American men in space, Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom. Lastly, there is too little said about the importance of the race to the moon.
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