He headed the ‘Raketa-7’ (R-7) design team. While still in jail, in 1940 he was put to work on the USSR’s rocket effort. The Main Players Sergei Pavlovich Korolevīorn in 1907 in the Ukraine, Korolev was imprisoned for most of the war. Kennedy might never have felt the need to reach for the Moon.” “What would have happened if Gagarin had been second into space? If it hadn’t been for that three weeks’ difference, I think history would have worked out differently. “So we have an interesting question,” says Logsdon. The problem was easy to fix, but NASA wanted to run another unmanned test before committing an astronaut. That made for one very unhappy chimpanzee, by the way.”
The braking rockets fired late, sending Ham more than a hundred miles down range of the correct splashdown zone, and it took several hours to recover him. NASA’s Alan Shepard was supposed to go first, in a Mercury capsule … His flight should have happened in March, but a previous test on 31 January had a chimpanzee called Ham on board. “The Russians only beat America by three weeks. John Logsdon, former Head of the Space Policy Institute in Washington, DC, raises a fascinating idea. Yuri Gagarin: 8 things you (probably) didn’t know about the first man in space.Was the Moon landing really a great leap for mankind?.Back down to Earth: the legacy of the 1969 moon landing.No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important for the long-range exploration of space, and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish.” On 25 May, Kennedy made one of the most famous speeches in history: “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth. Little more than a month after Yuri Gagarin’s spaceflight, John F Kennedy announces the US’s intention to reach for the Moon (Photo by NASA)
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