1. Space, The Final Frontier.

3. Why Bother? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g25G1M4EXrQ
Origins of the Space Race are reflected in the rivalry to build rockets powerful enough to send nuclear warheads across the ocean, loft satellites into Earth orbit, or carry humans to the Moon.

4. And Russia Takes the Lead!!
Russia was first to space and first to sent a person to space.
They ruled the Space race from 1957-the early 1960’s
Why? The US was more interested in creating bombs.

5. Sputnik 1957
First
Satellite

6. Yuri Gagarin

7. Yuri Garagin Cosmonaut April 12 1961 First Human in Space.
Orbited for 108 minutes.
Survived re-entry
Died in 1968 in a flight
Training accident.
He was 34.

8. Alan Shepard
First American in Space.
May 5th 1961

9. Alan Shepard
"When reporters asked Shepard what he thought about as he sat atop the Redstone rocket, waiting for liftoff, he had replied, 'The fact that every part of this ship was built by the lowest bidder.

10. Alan Shepard Astronaut. 2nd Human in Space. May 5th 1961
Commanded Apollo 14.
5th person to walk on the Moon
Died in 1998.

11. John Glenn

12. John Glenn First to Orbit Earth. 3rd Human in Space.
On October 29, 1998, he became the oldest person to fly in space, and the only one to fly in both the Mercury and Space Shuttle programs, when at age 77, he flew on Discovery.
Only one left Alive from the Original Mercury 7.

13. Gemini Program 1965-1966 Long Duration Space Flight
Gemini 3,5, 6A, 8, 11, 12
Famous Names: Gus Grissom-3, Neil Armstrong-8, Buzz Aldrin-12.

14. The Apollo Program
The Apollo programs main focus was to land a man on the moon.

15. Apollo 1
Apollo 1 Crew
Gus Grissom
Ed White
Roger Chaffe

16. Apollo 1 Apollo 1 never made it to Space. There was a fire.
Before the astronauts could
Be rescued they all died
From smoke inhalation.

17. Apollo 1
From the Earth to the Moon Miniseries