Space Race
1955 - 1975
In The Beginning
1942 - 1946
1940 - 1949
ICBM
>5500 km
1953, 1957
1954, 1957
Sergei Korolev
1907 - 1966
Wernher von Braun
1912 - 1977
President Truman, Paperclip
May 2, 1945
After failure of US Navy, Kaputnik
International Geophysical Year
1957 - Start of Space Race
Sputnik 1, October 4, 1957
Dwight Eisenhower
Explorer 1, January 31, 1958
Laika, Sputnik 2
3 November 1957
Nikita Khrushchev's order
40th anniversary of the October Revolution
Luna Missions
1959 - 3 missions
February 3, 1966
Soft landing of Luna 9
Venera 1
February 12, 1961
US: December 14, 1962,
Mariner 2
Impact by Venera 3
March 1, 1966
First Human in Space
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin
April 12, 1961
Vostok 1
First Human in Space
Alan Shepard
May 5, 1961
Mercury-Redstone 3
"We choose to go to the Moon"
Bay of Pigs Invasion, 17 April 1961
Loosing to Soviets in Space Race
Proposal to work together with Soviets
September 12, 1962
Project Gemini
1961 - 1966, First docking: March 16, 1966
First Woman in Space
June 16, 1963 Vostok 6
Spaceplane
July 19, 1963
GPS
December 5, 1963
Satellite Navigation System (satnav)
Nowadays:
Russia: GLONASS
China: BDS (BeiDou)
Europe: Galileo
Voskhod
1964 - 1966
Pavel Belyayev, Alexey Leonov 18 March, 1965
Voskhod 2
US: Gemini 4, June 3, 1965
Mariner 4 (MARS)
July 14, 1965
Automated Docking
October 30, 1967
Cosmos 186 / Cosmos 188
Escaping Earth
December 21, 1968
Apollo 8
Crew Exchange in Space
January 16, 1969
Soyuz 4 / Soyuz 5
July 20, 1969
Buzz Aldrin
Neil Armstrong
Michael Collins
End of the
Space Race?
September 24, 1970
Luna 16
November 23, 1970
Lunokhod 1
December 15, 1970
Venera 7 Landing
November 27, 1971
Mars 2, First Mars Impact
December 2, 1971
Mars 3
December 12, 1970
X-ray Observatory
July 31, 1971
Lunar Rover
November 14, 1971
Mariner 9, Mars orbit
November 15, 1972
Gamma Ray Observatory
February 5, 1974
Mariner 10, Gravity Assist
Salyut 1
April 19, 1971
Skylab
May 14, 1973
Leaving the Sun
March 2, 1972 - Pioneer 10, Jupiter mission
September 5, 1977 - Voyager 1
August 20, 1977 - Voyager 2
Apollo-Soyuz
July 15, 1975
Agreement Concerning Cooperation in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space for Peaceful Purposes
Richard Nixon & Leonid Brezhnev
April 1972
Agreement between the United States of America and the Russian Federation Concerning Cooperation in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space
George H. W. Bush & Boris Yeltsin
June 1992
Interkosmos
April 1967 - 1988
Warsaw Pact
Turkey's Space Program
July 17, 2013 - Roketsan ordered to build Space Launch System (UFS)
The Space Group Command will be established
under the Turkish Air Force
$100 million budget
Emin Mastizada
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Prepared for ATA102 Lecture, 2018
emin@linux.com