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One thing I had always wondered is why during the world has so little information about the bottoms of our own oceans while at the same we spend all their time researching about space. Not to downplay how cool space is and always will be, but I found it a little strange that we know more about galaxies that man may never reach than we do about what's below the surface of 70% of earth. Therefore, the main question my project aims to answer is, "What if the we had explored the ocean during the Cold War as extensively as we did space?"
I think the first step to create the answer to that question was to begin with how the Space Race started. I knew that this space exploration began with the space race during the Cold War, but in all the history classes I took it was never elaborated what exactly happened during the space race. The most I ever knew was that Russia took the first step by launching the Sputnik I and American "won" by getting the first man to the moon. That being said, to begin my project I learned as much about the timeline of the space race that I could.
Being American, I had expected we would be the ones kicking butt in this race, but I found out that this wasn't true. Russia dominated pretty much everything in terms of firsts: first man in space, first photographs of the moon from lunar orbit, etc. Not only that, but nearly every single achievement we made was done after the Russians already did it.
I think the first step to create the answer to that question was to begin with how the Space Race started. I knew that this space exploration began with the space race during the Cold War, but in all the history classes I took it was never elaborated what exactly happened during the space race. The most I ever knew was that Russia took the first step by launching the Sputnik I and American "won" by getting the first man to the moon. That being said, to begin my project I learned as much about the timeline of the space race that I could.
Being American, I had expected we would be the ones kicking butt in this race, but I found out that this wasn't true. Russia dominated pretty much everything in terms of firsts: first man in space, first photographs of the moon from lunar orbit, etc. Not only that, but nearly every single achievement we made was done after the Russians already did it.
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The point of this project was to rewrite history and so I decided to literally rewrite it by creating a short section that looks like it came straight out of a middle school textbook. I "translated" the timeline of the space race and created different subsections that I could split the timeline into. This was formatted on Pages, first using the a base layout of a pamphlet but heavily modified. I went with a serif font like a printed text would use.
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1945-2000: A Timeline of Development. NOVA, 6 Feb. 2010. Web. 12 Sept. 2016.
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Mexico. 2014. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Human Occupied Vehicle Alvin. Web. 22 Sept. 2016.
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5 Dec. 2014. Web. 8 Sept. 2016.
"Seven miles under the ocean, it's a lot noisier than we thought." PRI's The
World 9 Mar. 2016. World History in Context. Web. 8 Sept. 2016.
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Robots: Exploring the Deep Ocean." Ocean Portal. Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, 23 Aug. 2016. Web. 23 Sept. 2016.
"The Space Race and the Cold War." Science and Its Times. Ed. Neil
Schlager and Josh Lauer. Vol. 7. Detroit: Gale, 2001. World History in Context. Web. 6 Sept. 2016.
