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Space Race
An excerpt from footage of the Apollo 11 lunar landing, 1969.

An excerpt from footage of the Apollo 11 lunar landing, 1969.

After some setbacks and second place finishes to the Soviets, the United States successfully became the first nation to land a man on the moon. Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped foot on the moon on July 20, 1969, and astronaut Michael Collins piloted the command module.

Citation Information
Excerpt from “F-0051A The Flight of Apollo 11,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/53b01d4d297ff645bafa2bf99c069f89.
Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.
Courtesy of San Diego Air and Space Museum Library and Archives via California Digital Library.

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Item 11 of 15 in the Primary Source Set Space Race

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A 1957 American political cartoon titled “Another Race We Can Lose.”
A 1959 cigarette company trading card featuring Laika, the Sputnik dog.
A 1958 news clip of an American official discussing the Soviet space program.
A 1961 model of Explorer I, the first American satellite to orbit the earth.
An excerpt from an academic paper about the Cold War missile gap between the US and USSR, 2011.
A 1960 news clip of a US Air Force general discussing American missile technology and manned space flight.
A 1961 American political cartoon published after cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space.
An excerpt from a May 1961 speech by President John F. Kennedy on urgent national needs, including the space program.
A 1962 news clip of the hydrogen-powered American Centaur missile exploding after take-off.
An excerpt from footage of the Apollo 11 lunar landing, 1969.
A model of the Soviet N-1 rocket, designed for a moon landing mission, ca. 1970.
A 1984 United States Department of Defense chart of Soviet space program costs.
A 1988 news clip that includes a description of the Strategic Defense Initiative.
A 1998 diagram of the International Space Station and the countries involved.

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