Tensons; space race;

The USSR was racing the U.S. to launch a satellite into orbit. We tried 100 launches and they all never made it. They either blew up or came back down. On October 9th the soviet union launched SPUTNIK(a russian staellite) into orbit. Now the U.S. was worried about an all out attack. The soviet Union could now send a nuclear warhead anywhere in the world. This made all American citizens very worried about how the future would turn out. We continued to try and put an american satellite into orbit. The soviets were now a huge threat to the U.S. and any other country that waged war on them. The U.S. finally got one into orbit. Our first one was on January 31, 1958. The U.S. was no longer scared.