Work Cited

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Political Cartoon Titled "Another Race We Can Lose." | DPLA,​

https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/space-race/sources/1704​.

Note: This political animation from a St. Louis paper summarizes America's hopelessness

over the fruitful Soviet dispatch of Sputnik, the primary satellite to circle the earth. This

animation suggests the warming relations between the Soviet Union and India, an in the

past nonpartisan nation in the driving rain War.

“A 1998 Diagram of the International Space Station and the Countries Involved.” ​A 1998

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Note: Following the Cold War, several national space programs, including NASA and a

Russian agency, joined efforts to have a permanently inhabited research facility in

space. This image displays each country’s contribution to the International Space

Station.

“A Model of the Soviet N-1 Rocket, Designed for a Moon Landing Mission, Ca. 1970.” ​A Model

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Note: The Soviets expected to utilize this rocket and case to send people to the moon.

The program needed subsidizing and, after four bombed endeavors, the program was
 surrendered in 1974.

“An Excerpt from Footage of the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing, 1969.” ​An Excerpt from Footage of

the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing, 1969. | DPLA​, 20 July 1969,

https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/space-race/sources/1713​.

Note: After certain difficulties and runner up completions to the Soviets, the United

States effectively turned into the primary country to arrive a man on the moon. Space

explorers Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin ventured foot on the moon on July 20, 1969,

and space explorer Michael Collins steered the direction module.

Including the Space Program.” ​An Excerpt from a May 1961 Speech by President John F.

Kennedy on Urgent National Needs, Including the Space Program. | DPLA​, 25 May

1961, ​https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/space-race/sources/1711​.

Note: In this extract, President John F. Kennedy plots why the space program is crucial to

national interests, what its advantages will be, what number of national assets it merits,

and its normal outcomes, including an intense expectation of moon investigation.

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http://www.american-historama.org/1945-1989-cold-war-era/cold-war-space-race.htm​.

Note: Overall summary of how the space race started and who won it.

Dunbar, Brian. “NASA Fungal Pathogenesis, Tumorigenesis and Effects of Host Immunity in

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“Heroes of Space: Laika the Space Dog: Space Facts – Astronomy, the Solar System & Outer

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Note: Picture of the dog Laika.

History.com Editors. “The Space Race.” ​History.com,​ A&E Television Networks, 22 Feb. 2010,

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Note:​This article talks about when World War II came closer and closer to ending during

the mid twentieth century a new conflict arose, the Cold War, this war was about to of the

most powerful nations. The Soviet Union and the United States. It also talks about who

won “The Space Race.”

History, Simple. “The Space Race (1955-1975).” ​YouTube,​ 14 Nov. 2016,

https://youtu.be/xvaEvCNZymo​.

Note: After WWII, the U.S. and Russia captured Germany’s rockets and their research. In

1955 both countries announced that their satellites would be put into orbit. Russia became

the first to launch a satellite into space and the U.S. following four months later. Russia

also had the first person to be put into space. The U.S. had plans to put a man on the

moon. Neil Armstrong became the first man to land on the moon. The U.S. won the

Space Race.
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Note:This article talks about when World War II came closer and closer to ending during

the mid twentieth century a new conflict arose, the Cold War, this war was about to of the

most powerful nations. The Soviet Union and the United States. It also talks about who

won “The Space Race.”

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Note: Talks about the first living being to be sent in outer space.

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Note: Information about the Explorer One, the first American satellite launched.

Mann, Adam. “What Was the Space Race?” ​Space.com​, Space, 7 Aug. 2019,

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Note: An overview of how the Space Race began and who accomplished smaller things

first like who launched the first artificial satellite which was the Soviet Union.
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Note: Talks about monkeys and apes being sent to space to see if people could be sent to

space and survive.

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Note: Talks about chimps, monkeys, and dogs who became “astronauts.”

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Note: picture of satellite in outer space.

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Note: Picture of a starry background.

Stirone, Shannon. “Space Photos of the Week: One Last Piece of the Moon Rock.” ​Wired​, Conde

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 Note: Was a Cold War competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to

develop aerospace capabilities, including artificial satellites, unmanned space probes, and

human spaceflight.

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Note: How Sputnik 1 was launched by the USSR.