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Space race BY Savannah Barishian

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!

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Space race BY Savannah Barishian

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  1. Sputnik, National Defense Education Act & NASA Space raceBY Savannah Barishian

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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,

  6. URL Links http://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large/3-sputnik-1-satellite-detlev-van-ravenswaay.jpg http://blsciblogs.baruch.cuny.edu/his1005spring2011/files/2011/04/spacerace.png http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/uhic/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWindow?failOverType=&query=&prodId=UHIC&windowstate=normal&contentModules=&mode=view&displayGroupName=Reference&limiter=&u=mlin_s_seekhs&currPage=&disableHighlighting=false&displayGroups=&sortBy=&source=&search_within_results=&p=UHIC%3AWHIC&action=e&catId=&activityType=&scanId=&documentId=GALE%7CCV2643450871 http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/worklife/10/04/nasa.everyday/index.html?_s=PM:LIVING http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Glenn https://www.google.com/search?q=moon&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=IeJ8U5WZO-jlsASe8oLACA&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ&biw=1280&bih=627#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=A11gPOqDW9fTNM%253A%3Be7LXR3nBVKeAkM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fimg4.wikia.nocookie.net%252F__cb20140407221110%252Fscifi%252Fimages%252Fd%252Fde%252FMoon-march-2012-senin.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fscifi.wikia.com%252Fwiki%252FFile%253AMoon-march-2012-senin.jpg%3B1200%3B896

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