Recording of my essay on who won the Space Race and whether this was or wasn't significant to the Cold War.

1. Soaring through Unfamiliar Skies By: Parker Reynolds

2. Yuri Gagarin was a Soviet cosmonaut who was the first person to make a single orbit around the Earth.

3. In 1958, President Eisenhower created NASA. And Kennedy gave us the push for us to go to the Moon by the end of the 1960’s.

4. In 1957 the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the World’s first artificial satellite.

5. In 1969, the Apollo 11 crew: Mike Collins, Neil Armstrong, and Buzz Aldrin landed on the Moon. “That’s one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind” said Neil Armstrong

6. The United States signed the SALT Agreement with the Soviet Union to decrease tensions between the two nations.

7. Works Cited Slide 1 picture: examiner.com Slide 2 upper left picture: universetoday.com Slide 2 bottom right picture: discoveryenterprise.blogspot.com Slide 3 background picture: seabass.gsfc.nasa.gov Slide 3 upper right picture: bartleby.com Slide 3bottom right picture: davidstokeslive.com Slide 3 bottom left picture: images.businessweek.com Slide 4 bottom left picture: spacesystemsresearch.wordpress.com Slide 4 upper middle picture: uwgb.edu Slide 4 background picture: vibrationdata.com

8. Works Cited Continued… Slide 5 background picture: the-english-spot.blogspot.com Slide 5 bottom right picture: scrapetv.com Slide 5 bottom left picture: wallpaperstock.net Slide 6 background picture: woodward8.wikispaces.com Slide 6 bottom right picture: superchefblog.com Slide 6 bottom middle picture: phbond.pbworks.com