notes
sugestive question
What if the USSR won the space race
quote
"A human being is the best computer available to place in a spacecraft. . . It is also the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor."Werner von Braun
summary
The Americans and the USSR had a race to who could send a man to the moon, to see who was the better nation.
- In 1957 Soviets launch the first earth-orbiting satellite named Sputnik
- About size of basketball only made beeps
- people feared atomic weapons would soon be used from space
- Scared Americans with new technology
- Soviets get to moon first with unmanned ships
- Soviets send out a dog, monkey a man, and a woman all first
sugestive question
What if the USSR won the space race
quote
"A human being is the best computer available to place in a spacecraft. . . It is also the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor."Werner von Braun
summary
The Americans and the USSR had a race to who could send a man to the moon, to see who was the better nation.