The Cold War : Space Race

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The Cold War

ver. Space Race

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Have you ever heard about Cold War? The name Cold War is not just representing the War between few nations. The exact definition of The Cold War was: The Cold relationships between Soviet Union (USSR, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics), which completely collapsed at 1991 and USA, which is the greatest superpower in world now.

To show each other that they are strong, they tried to send people to space. Both countries made a space program. Many people predicted US will be the first, but the prediction was wrong. The Soviet Union Space Project Development Group made the first earth-orbit unman satellite named Sputnik I, and shoot it to the space with rocket.

At that time, USA was developing the perfect rocket, and they were testing their fuel with X-15 rockets, but they were very upset at the fact that Soviet Union was the first nation that made the satellite. It was one of the most sad thing to NASA. But, same thing happened again. In 1961 April the 12th, Soviet Union made USA more upset by sending Yuri Gagarin, who was the first cosmonaut (We call Russian, Soviet Union's astronaut into cosmonaut sometimes.) throughout the world.

It made the relationship between Russia and NASA fell down into serious condition. So, USA's revenge was great enough. They also sent an astronaut named John Glenn. He is famous with 2 great result he left. He flew the orbit of the earth, and the more important thing is, we flied with spacecraft at the age of 77. It is quite interesting! I was very impressed about it.

They also made Neil Alden Armstrong into first human that stepped into the moon under the support of JFK's government and NASA. And the most groundbreaking achievement US did was: they made spacecraft! These competitions made two countries into superpower of the world to 1991, until the Soviet Union completely collapsed into many Republics.

At past, Korea also tried to shoot KSLV-I and KSLV-II, which was well-known as NARO Rocket. Korea have to research for a long time to achieve US and Russia's spacecraft/rocket making technologies.

[Kelsey]

Wow!! Great job!! I love all of this history too! Space exploration is very interesting, huh?

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Yeah, the process they competed was very fun.
But due to their competition, they technology developed very well.