The Space Race and Intercontinental Ballistic Misslies
In 1957 the Soviets launch the first Earth orbiting satellite named Sputnik
About the size of a basketball and only made beeps
People feared that atomic weapons would soon be delivered without airplanes
The gave the USSR an upper hand and they began to demand concessions.
The russians liked to win at chess because it proved that they were smarter.
American radio stations would pick up this beeping noise in space, and scientifically scared the shit out of people because it was the first time something had been launched into space.
The soviets then went on to beat the americans at almost every step of the space race. They sent a dog and man up into space. They sent the first woman into space, and were the first to do a space walk.
First to put a machine on the moon.
They wanted to be the first person on the moon,
Russian advancements were crazy.
About the size of a basketball and only made beeps
People feared that atomic weapons would soon be delivered without airplanes
The gave the USSR an upper hand and they began to demand concessions.
The russians liked to win at chess because it proved that they were smarter.
American radio stations would pick up this beeping noise in space, and scientifically scared the shit out of people because it was the first time something had been launched into space.
The soviets then went on to beat the americans at almost every step of the space race. They sent a dog and man up into space. They sent the first woman into space, and were the first to do a space walk.
First to put a machine on the moon.
They wanted to be the first person on the moon,
Russian advancements were crazy.