Hey Kids! My name is
Miss Virginia. And I’m here to tell you about the Space Race. Now don’t you worry, I’ll be here along the way helping you understand what’s going on.
And I’m Tad! I’m so excited for my first adventure through space!
Are you?
Do you have your spacesuit? Good!
Then lets go!!

This is the beginning of the space race.
Sputnik was the name of the satellite that the
Soviet Union sent into space.
Oh, I know something about
Sputnik! It made one revolution every 90 minutes !

Sputnik 2 took a dog named Laika into space, but they didn’t figure out how to get her down.
What about the united states?
What were they doing to try and get into space?

That is a very good question
Tad. But first let’s make sure every one else understands.
The Space Race was called that because it was a race between the Soviets and the Americans to get to the moon first.
I want
America to win!

This satellite was the first American
Satellite to orbit the Earth.
Go
America!

President Dwight
Eisenhower signed the papers that created NASA.
Do you know what
NASA stands for?
I do! It Stands for
National
Aeronautics and
Space
Administration.

This Soviet satellite was the first manmade object to reach the moon
Doesn’t it look like a barbeque that someone flipped upside down?

The newspapers ended up making fun of the Astronauts because a chimpanzee could do their job.
I know him!
His name is
Ham.

When NASA was called about the
Soviets sending a real person into space, all they could say was , “We’re all asleep down here..”
In school we learned that the Soviets didn’t have Astronauts they have cosmonauts !

But the American’s got back at the
Soviets and sent
Alan Shepard into space.
This is when they started using the phrase
“A-OK!”

This probe orbited the moon and played the song
Internationale for a political meeting in the soviet union
That one looks like a robot.
(robot voice)
I am a robot,
BLEEP
BLOOP!

In the end the country who put man on the moon was
America!
Wait so who won?

Well now, wasn’t that a fun trip? We learned so much. And Tad, you helped us learn a lot too. My favorite part was when the
Astronauts landed on the moon because they look just like me.
My favorite part was America winning!