The 35th president of the United States, John F Kennedy, gave his “Race to Space” speech at Rice University In Houston, Texas under great pressure to “catch up” to the Soviets and their space program. He delivered this speech to challenge America to take a leading position in the Space Race and to encourage them in their studies to make it possible. To start, President Kennedy’s “Race to Space” speech calls upon the country to preempt the exploration of space using pathos, irony, and metaphor. Kennedy uses pathos throughout his speech but most notably when he states, “than those of the Soviet Union”. At the time this speech was given, the United States and the Soviet Union had extreme tension coming out of the cold war and entering the space
The purpose of this speech is to get the USA motivated to charge forward in the scientific community mainly backing the Apollo program and show the Russians that our technology is far superior to theirs. The setting was September 12, 1962 during the height of the cold war and space race. The speaker demonstrates his credibility (ethos) by showing us his knowledge of scientific events that changed the world and scientific facts such as how fast objects reenter the atmosphere showing that he knows a few things about space and he should be trustworthy when it comes to policies regarding space. Kennedy demonstrates his Knowledge of the Mariner spacecraft by
The same year, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was formed (“The Space Race”). In 1959, the Soviet Union sent a man, Yuri Gagarin, into orbit around the earth on the satellite Luna 2. The U.S. responded by launching Mercury-Redstone 3 into space carrying
As always, he uses his public speaking skills to unify the country under his cause and persuade them to put efforts in so the Country gets a man on the moon. His dreams end up coming true even though he never got to see it. On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong, an American, is the first man to ever take a step on the moon. Due to his early on efforts, he gave the county the needed push to beat the Soviets and give our country a confidence
By 1962 The United States was able to send the first person to orbit around Earth which led to the Apollo Project being put into place. The project was a part of President John F. Kennedy's plan to reach the moon before the end of the decade (Seedhouse 195). The Apollo project hit its first major setback in January 1967 after an aircraft caught on fire killing three astronauts. A year prior to this strategy the chief engineer of the Soviet space program passed. By 1968 the United States sent out Apollo 8 which successfully orbited the moon.
The Space Race seemed to only benefit the Soviets in the beginning. They were the first to launch Sputnik in 1957, and famously the first to put a man in space, Yuri Gagarin. According to historians though, these initial Soviet victories helped the United States to reach the moon first. In an effort to educate the public about the impacts of the original Soviet dominance in the war and how it helped propel the United States into the country who landed on the moon first, Asif Siddiqi, an esteemed space historian with a PhD from Fordham University stated, "In some ways, Sputnik and Gagarin were like gifts to NASA... You're not going to have a moon program without that kind of a shock.
They went on and launched a dog into space. Shortly after the Americans developed a space administration. The race ended when the United States landed on the moon in 1969. Neil Armstrong was the first person to be on the moon and he returned back safely, accomplishing their goal of demonstrating superiority in their
With the astronauts on the “moon”, Richard Nixon speaks with Neil Armstrong and tells him that he is proud of them and that this is a defining moment in American history and this will go down as one of the greatest feats in United States history. The sole thing that will help determine whether or not the greatest space achievement in human history is true or false is time. With time, we will be able to fully explain what happened on July 20,
Kennedy also was instrumental in the creation of the Peace Corps in 1961, this same year Alan Shepard became the first American in space. This was one of Kennedy’s defining moments in his presidency. In 1969 the Apollo 11 successfully landed on the moon. At the end of World War 2 nuclear weapons became a persistent aspect of warfare and the nuclear arms race encouraged the development
Also during this time the US and Russia were fighting to see who could get to space first. According to “Address at Rice University on the Nation’s Space Effort.” President Kennedy says, “We have vowed that we shall not see space filled with weapons of mass destruction, but with instruments of knowledge and understanding.” Kennedy addresses the fact that Russia is threatening to use space as a huge weapon if they get there before us. Space was extremely unknown which caused a lot of people to have fear and anxiety especially with Russia making threats to use it as a
Kennedy’s challenge was to send a man to the moon. It was on July 20, 1969 that Kennedy was planning to send a man to space. This challenge had to be done before the decade was out. In seven NASA made a bold decision to send the Apollo 8 all the way to the moon on the first manned flight massive Saturn V Rocket. Next on July 16 they made a crew for the Apollo 11.
Through this demonstration more than five billion dollars was put into training relating to Science and the humanities, encouraging the Americans yearning to win the Space Race. (John F. Kennedy *6) This created intensified the tensions between the Soviets and the U.S. because it left both nations competing to have the upper hand in nuclear weaponry technology
The Space Wars were the start of serious space discovery and science. The Soviet Union and the United States were the main contenders to these explorations. In 1970, Russia launched a rover, Lunokhod, to the moon as the first rover to effectively access many parts of the moon and to land on another world. The Soviet Union also sent two other rovers to Mars called Mars 2 and Mars 3, yet they were both unsuccessful. In a response, the year of 1971 was the time the United States started to send famous rovers to space as well.
That’s when the Apollo program was initiated, all of the missions weren’t going so well at first till Apollo 11 when Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin and Michael Collins had successfully landed on the moon (The space race,
The choice made by John F. Kennedy to place a man on the moon opened an endless realm of possibilities for space exploration, while simultaneously uniting and boosting the morale of the American people together. After the long-lasting fight of World War II, the only two great powers that were left in the world were the United States and the Soviet Union. Both countries differed in many ways. For example, they were dissimilar economically, politically, and culturally. When the war ended, tension rose
