Space Race: An Interactive Space Exploration Adventure
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Space Race - Rebecca Stefoff
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ABOUT YOUR ADVENTURE
YOU are living in the mid-1900s. The world’s two rival superpowers each want to be first into a new frontier: space. But space is full of hazards. Sending a machine, animal, or person into it will take skill, hard work, and daring.
In this book you’ll explore how the choices people made meant the difference between life and death. The events you’ll experience happened to real people.
Chapter One sets the scene. Then you choose which path to read. Follow the links at the bottom of each page as you read the stories. The decisions you make will change your outcome. After you finish one path, go back and read the others for new perspectives and more adventures. Use your device's back buttons or page navigation to jump back to your last choice.
YOU CHOOSE the path you take through history.
CHAPTER 1
THE RACE BEGINS
You are living in a time of change and scientific progress. Ever since World War II ended in 1945, nations have been rebuilding. Some are making incredible leaps in science and technology. But the most exciting new frontier lies just ahead. Governments and scientists are working to begin the exploration of space. With great excitement, you watch the race to space begin.
In July 1950 the Bumper 2 became the first rocket launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Bumper 2 was designed using technology from the V-2 missiles of World War II.
The space race has roots in World War II. One power in that conflict was Nazi Germany, which poured money and engineers into developing rockets for use in war. Germany was defeated by a group of nations that included the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union. Afterward, the United States and the Soviet Union each acquired German rocket technology and scientists. The United States got Germany’s powerful V-2 missile, along with rocketry expert Wernher von Braun, who was interested in space exploration.
A key part of the space race is the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, which started in the late 1940s. The two nations were allies in World War II, but have become rivals. Now they are the world’s superpowers. Each tries to gain influence over other countries around the globe. The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union is called a cold
war because open warfare has never quite broken out between them.
Americans fear the spread of Soviet communism. Leaders also worry about the growing military strength of the Soviet Union — especially after the Soviets test their first atomic bomb in 1949. When it becomes clear that the Soviets are building atomic bombs to compete with those controlled by the United States, many Americans fear that these atomic weapons will be turned against them.
The United States and the Soviet Union start stockpiling atomic weapons. They are also developing long-range rockets to carry weapons across an ocean in case of war. Engineer Sergei Korolev heads a Soviet rocketry program. Von Braun heads the American program.
Wernher von Braun (arm in cast) and a group of other German rocket scientists surrendered to American soldiers on May 2, 1945.
Both nations see space as the next frontier. Satellites in orbit around Earth could be used for communications, spying, scientific research, and maybe for launching weapons. In July 1955 the United States says that it will launch an Earth-orbiting satellite in the next few years. Four days later the Soviet Union says the same thing. Which nation will be first in space? The space race is on — and you can be part of it.
To help the United States get into space by working