![]() The United States caught up with, and then passed, their Soviet rivals during the mid-1960s, landing the first man on the Moon in 1969. The Soviet Union took the lead in the post-war Space Race, launching the first satellite, the first man and the first woman into orbit. ![]() First successful large-scale rocket programs were initiated in the 1920s Germany by Fritz von Opel and Max Valier, and eventually in Nazi Germany by Wernher von Braun. Spaceflight began in the 20th century following theoretical and practical breakthroughs by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Robert H. ( October 2020) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. He was a Mathematician (had his Master’s, too) & was recruited by NASA.This section needs additional citations for verification. We’ve been hanging out with them & gotten to know more about them. I’ve started seeing her parents frequently when my sister & I take our Daddy out to eat each Thursday. I have a friend that was in my youth group when I was in High School back in the 70’s. They were working on Jet Engines for Airplanes! They had their suspicions and they found out after the war they were correct. They were just given enough information to do their part. They weren’t told what they were working on. ![]() He was put to work doing technical electric stuff. Their business grew into one of the largest in our area. My Daddy & Uncle got to know him & his partner and help them get their Electrical Business started. We had a very good friend who immigrated from Germany after WWII and became a US Citizen. During the Battle of Remagen, V-2 missiles missed a targeted bridge by up to 40 miles. The V-2 was notoriously inaccurate, even with new methods of mechanical piloting and radio guidance. No matter how developed the rocketry was, all efforts to reach the moon would be in vain without better navigation and computation methods. This technology was then used for political and scientific purposes, and the countries started putting men in space, with von Braun, now a US citizen, leading the American efforts with his rocket designs, culminating in the Saturn V rocket that sent Apollo 11 to the Moon. With the hundreds of remaining V-2s, both the Russians and the Allies were able to reverse engineer the design, using it to kickstart their own ballistic missile programs and then immediately pointing the results at their former partners. Von Braun and his team chose to go to the Americans, using his SS credentials to safely journey to Austria before surrendering. Both nations actively scoured the smoldering remains of the Third Reich, searching for technological secrets, particularly related to rocketry. The V-2 was the starting point for both Soviet and American rocket design. US Army V-2 cutaway drawing showing engine, fuel cells, guidance units and warhead, 1 August 1945 (US Air Force photo) This final confrontation and competition between the two countries was born out of the technologies and animosities that emerged from the conflagration of World War II. The Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were in their Lunar Excursion Module, the Eagle, preparing to leave the ship Columbia and its pilot, Michael Collins. As the Soviets were making their final preparations, the Americans were doing the same. The Luna 15 sample return mission, the Soviet’s last chance at getting moon rocks before the US, was orbiting the Moon, having arrived three days prior. The USSR had effectively conceded the race to land men on the Moon to the United States following the repeated failures of the Soviet lunar rocket, the N1, earlier in the year, but there was still an opportunity to best the Americans. The world’s two superpowers were in a race to retrieve samples from the surface of the moon. In the afternoon of July 20, 1969, the Space Race was coming to a head. Apollo 11 Lunar Module Eagle descending to the moon, 20 July 1969, photographed from command module Columbia (NASA photo)
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