Beyond Armstrong
In the Space Race, the United States has supposedly won upon landing Neil Armstrong on the moon in 1969. From 1969 all the way into 1972, the USSR tried and failed to launch their own mission to the moon. Yet, the accomplishment of a man on the moon led for heightened curiosity and the space stations of the USSR and the USA worked together in 1975 to launch the Soyuz 19 (USSR) and Apollo 17 (USA) in a joint mission into space and reducing Cold War tensions.
In the Space Race, many technologies were made to compete with the USSR. The spaceship, Apollo 17, was in effect and later, Apollo 18 actually flies with the ship, the Soyuz 19 of the USSR. It was called the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project or the ASTP by NASA and it was led by the US's Apollo Command and Service Module (CSM). American and Russian crews became familiar with one another and visited each other's space stations - the first visit commenced by Russia in 1974. In concurrence, that American crew was the first Americans to ever see the Russian facilities at Tyuratam on April 28, 1975. One of the biggest problems was language differences, but that was smoothed out as both countries tried to learn one another's language. The Soyuz 19 launched in July of 1975 and the Apollo 18 launch 7 hours and 30 minutes later. They dealt in combined experiments, projects, and activities over the course of their stay in space.
The creation of unmanned space probes to go onto surfaces of moons, planets, and space situations came to fruition in the case that man cannot investigate due to dangers or physical inability. The first was Luna 16 which was launched by the Soviet Union in 1970. The next notable space probe was the Lunokhod 1, which was the first rover on the Moon, also in 1970. Others in 1971 became the first to maintain orbits around other planets and some even landed on new planets like Mars.
In addition, the first space-lab was the USA’s called Skylab in 1973. Skylab was the first space-lab or space station it's lifetime of six years was spent orbiting the Earth until it fell out of rotation and soared back into the Earth's atmosphere. Three crews were able to board the station at different time periods for extended amounts of time - the last crew remaining there for 84 days which set an American record. It launched on May 14, 1973 but the flight was set askew by a meteor shield, rockets deployed and boosted the station into space. It was damaged and the crew on Earth and on the station (led by Apollo 12's Pete Conrad) tried to stabilize it and make it habitable. The crew was swearing a ton even when they got communications back up and NASA tried to calm them down. However, they proved that a station can be fixed while in orbit. It re-entered the atmosphere on July 11, 1979.
In the Space Race, many technologies were made to compete with the USSR. The spaceship, Apollo 17, was in effect and later, Apollo 18 actually flies with the ship, the Soyuz 19 of the USSR. It was called the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project or the ASTP by NASA and it was led by the US's Apollo Command and Service Module (CSM). American and Russian crews became familiar with one another and visited each other's space stations - the first visit commenced by Russia in 1974. In concurrence, that American crew was the first Americans to ever see the Russian facilities at Tyuratam on April 28, 1975. One of the biggest problems was language differences, but that was smoothed out as both countries tried to learn one another's language. The Soyuz 19 launched in July of 1975 and the Apollo 18 launch 7 hours and 30 minutes later. They dealt in combined experiments, projects, and activities over the course of their stay in space.
The creation of unmanned space probes to go onto surfaces of moons, planets, and space situations came to fruition in the case that man cannot investigate due to dangers or physical inability. The first was Luna 16 which was launched by the Soviet Union in 1970. The next notable space probe was the Lunokhod 1, which was the first rover on the Moon, also in 1970. Others in 1971 became the first to maintain orbits around other planets and some even landed on new planets like Mars.
In addition, the first space-lab was the USA’s called Skylab in 1973. Skylab was the first space-lab or space station it's lifetime of six years was spent orbiting the Earth until it fell out of rotation and soared back into the Earth's atmosphere. Three crews were able to board the station at different time periods for extended amounts of time - the last crew remaining there for 84 days which set an American record. It launched on May 14, 1973 but the flight was set askew by a meteor shield, rockets deployed and boosted the station into space. It was damaged and the crew on Earth and on the station (led by Apollo 12's Pete Conrad) tried to stabilize it and make it habitable. The crew was swearing a ton even when they got communications back up and NASA tried to calm them down. However, they proved that a station can be fixed while in orbit. It re-entered the atmosphere on July 11, 1979.