File:Space Race 1957-1975 with Sputnik 1 ̸ R-7 & Apollo 8 ̸ Saturn V.png
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English: Significant events from the timeline of the Space Race from 1957 through 1975 are plotted along the y-axis in order of relative difficulty of those accomplishments. All human spaceflight programs are graphed along with leading events for unpiloted probes. It is all put in context of government leadership and selected technological, social and military events of that period as they happened under the shadow of the nuclear arms race. In the left margin is an inset commemorating the Soviets winning the race to get a satellite into orbit, Sputnik 1. In the right margin is the launch of Apollo 8 where the USA won the race to send astronauts to the Moon. The two photos give a skewed sense of scale. In actuality, the Sputnik launcher was one-quarter the height of the Saturn V rocket (26.36%)[1] If the entire Sputnik 1 rocket had been mounted atop the 1st & 2nd stages of the Saturn V, the Apollo 8 rocket would still be about 5 stories taller (47.6 feet).[2] By another measure of comparison, the Saturn V had more than seven times the thrust that Sputnik's R-7 booster had (34,020kN vs 4,792kN). |
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| Author | Tdadamemd |
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- ↑ Height of the Sputnik 1 rocket was 29.167 meters (95.692 feet).
Height of the Saturn V rocket was 110.642 meters (363 feet). - ↑ Saturn V stage heights from Smithsonian Institute A10 diagram - saturn_v_diagram.jpg
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| current | 01:38, 24 April 2019 | | 1,920 × 1,080 (1.35 MB) | Tdadamemd (talk | contribs) | Adding transparency to bottom middle section for aesthetics. |
| 21:35, 16 March 2016 |  | 1,920 × 1,080 (1.12 MB) | Tdadamemd (talk | contribs) | Mod to context events. Including airliner first flights: the 707 that started the Jet Age, the 747 that started Jumbos, and supersonic transports. Treaty on same day of Apollo 1 tragedy, etc. | |
| 02:05, 17 February 2016 |  | 1,920 × 1,080 (1,016 KB) | Tdadamemd (talk | contribs) | User created page with UploadWizard |
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