Sputnik, National Defense Education Act & NASA
SPACE RACE
BY SAVANNAH BARISHIAN
Significance of Sputnik
World’s first artificial satellite- launched by Soviet’s
Traveled around the earth at 18,000 mph- TRIUMPH
FOR SOVIET TECHNOLOGY!
Caused U.S. scientists to frantically work- First
success on January 31, 1958
National Defense Education Act
Raised funding for peoples education from
$183,000,000 a year to $222,000,000 a year
Was a result of U.S. realizing we were falling behind
the Soviet Union in terms of technology
Provided the country with special defense personnel
by providing federal help to foreign language
scholars, area study centers, and engineering
students
Resulted in more U.S. students graduating and
going to college and advancing in technology
NASA!
Home of the first people (Neil Armstrong) to set foot
on the moon
First to conduct a lunar orbit with people on board
John Glenn was the only survivor of the Mercury
Seven who wanted to be the worlds first astronauts
Alan Shepard was the second person to enter space
and the only one from the Mercury Seven to walk on
the moon
Fun Facts
U.S. and Soviets came out of WWII as adversaries
Much of the technology used in the space race
came from military beginnings
At the end of the war, it was evident that the U.S.
was the “technological giant” because we invented
the first atom bomb
Some everyday things we use actually originated
from the space race like:
Velcro, spandex, smoke detectors, ear
thermometers, braces, cardiac pacemakers,
URL Links
http://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large/3sputnik-1-satellite-detlev-van-ravenswaay.jpg
http://blsciblogs.baruch.cuny.edu/his1005spring2011/files/201
1/04/spacerace.png
http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/uhic/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWi
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http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/worklife/10/04/nasa.everyday/index.htm
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Glenn
https://www.google.com/search?q=moon&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&
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THE END!!!