The Space Race: Sputnik, ICBM's
In 1957 the soviets launch the first Earth-orbiting satellite named Sputnik
About the size of a basketball and only made beeps
People feared that atomic weapons would soon be delivered without airplanes
This gave the USSR an upper hand and they vegan to demand concessions
About the size of a basketball and only made beeps
People feared that atomic weapons would soon be delivered without airplanes
This gave the USSR an upper hand and they vegan to demand concessions
What did the US want to Achieve during the Space Race?
The Space Race was a mid-to-late 20th century competition between the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US) for supremacy in space exploration. Between 1957 and 1975, the Cold War rivalry between the two nations focused on attaining firsts in space exploration, which were seen as necessary for national security and symbolic of technological and ideological superiority. The Space Race involved pioneering efforts to launch artificial satellites, sub-orbital and orbital human spaceflight around the Earth, and piloted voyages to the Moon.
ICBMs and Delivery systems
(ICBM) Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile
MIRVs (multiple independently Targeted Re-entry Vehicles)
Nuclear submarines
M.A.D (Mutually Assured Destruction)
Pre-emptive strike
SAC (Strategic Air Command) Planes flying 24 hours a day
MIRVs (multiple independently Targeted Re-entry Vehicles)
Nuclear submarines
M.A.D (Mutually Assured Destruction)
Pre-emptive strike
SAC (Strategic Air Command) Planes flying 24 hours a day
"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
An Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) is a ballistic missile with a minimum range of more than 5,500 kilometres. primarily designed for nuclear weapons delivery (delivering one or more nuclear warheads), similarly conventional, chemical and biological weapons can also be delivered with varying effectiveness. Most modern designs support multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles (MIRVs), allowing a single missile to carry several warheads, each of which can strike a different target.