Space Exploration
The Space Race began in or around the late-1950s, during the Cold War. The United States and Russia were both anxious to become the country to explore space. Unfortunately for the US, Russia launched the first artificial satellite and man-made object to orbit Earth, Sputnik. The launch of Sputnik surprised the United States, and we rushed to get our own space craft into space, and to beat Russia to anything else space related.
Who can listen to the words "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" and not bring to mind the images of the lunar mission of Apollo 11. We have been inventing and exploring things since centuries. Many of these things that we discovered or invented, were never thought would be possible in earth's life time. But they exist today, and they are used by almost every human being and there are many more incredible and improbable things to come and aid us in our daily life. One of the most interesting things to me would fall under exploration and inventing. We are about to venture into the history of space and learn how man and his inventions have gotten there.
The Space race has impacted every aspect of our modern lives. To start with it made the American public who at the end of the war were not interested in space look at Math and Science with respect.
"One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind," said by Neil Armstrong as he took his first steps on the moon during the NASA Apollo 11 expedition to the moon. No man has ever been to the moon before and NASA, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, was the first to get someone to land on the moon. NASA has had many great accomplishments in exploring the "new frontier" that have affected the United States ever since it was first created in July 1958. The idea for NASA first started when the Soviet Union launched the first satellite on October 4, 1957. United States started up its own space travel program and started to work on its own projects that would be better in than the Soviet Union's. This all started the great space race. It was a big race between the Soviet Union and the United States to see who could learn and discover the most. The United States and Soviet Union started building and sending satellites and space ships. Then they tried to see who could make a suit and ship that would be able to allow a living thing to go up in space. They tested out all of the equipment with monkeys and dogs, seeing what would work. Many animals did die in the process but by the results of their testing they were able to build suits and ships that allow human beings to go up in space. Even though they were able to create these machines, that doesn't mean that they didn't have their difficulties and dangers. Two space shuttles were crashed or blown up. There were many key factors that they had learned to fix that resulted in the crashing of those ships. They have made many discoveries and accomplishments like having the first astronauts walk on the moon.
The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), for supremacy in spaceflight capability. It originated from the missile-based nuclear arms race between the two nations that occurred following World War II. The technological superiority was seen as symbolic of ideological superiority. The Space Race spawned pioneering efforts to launch artificial satellites, unmanned space probes to the Moon, Venus, and Mars, and human spaceflight in low Earth orbit and to the Moon.
On October 4, 1957 the Soviet Union altered history and launched Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth. After the Soviet Union had launched Sputnik the United States started to worry that America may had been falling behind. In retaliation to the fear of the United States not being the most advanced and imperial nation, the United States created the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to advance space knowledge. It also passed the National Defense Education Act (NDEA) that promoted the study of mathematics, science, and foreign languages with funds from the government. After Sputnik was launched into space the "Space Race" had begun, a race to the moon that John Kennedy made a priority. It would restore the national pride and trust that many people had lost when Sputnik was launched by the Soviet Union who was winning when the Space Race was declared. In the fifty-seven years since Sputnik I was launched many advancements in satellite technology have been made. Many things that we would not necessarily connect with space are actually only able to operate with the satellites in space. Without those satellites there would be no cell phones, satellite television, GPS to help airplanes along with the ones...
The space race was a battle for technological superiority between the United States and the Soviet Union during the cold war. Each wanted to showcase the strengths of their political and economic systems. Its effects were far reaching; most notably the space race acted as a relief valve to the military tensions during this era of potential nuclear warfare, it eventually expanded collaboration on issues of mutual interest and provided opportunities to work together although deep mistrust and disdain that exists to this day with Russia and some of the remnants of the USSR.
...tes and the Soviet Union to see who could make the furthest development into space first. Creating NASA that lead to build new technologies during the Space Race, was proved because it helped U.S protect itself and today it still affect us in being able to accomplish our dreams. From President Kennedy’s contribution to the program to building Ranger Missions and Rockets Programs made America one of the most powerful and advanced country in the world. The Space Race not just only created shuttles, it created things we used now on daily basis like water purification, chemical detection, solar cells, and many more. The Cold War might have a lot of negative things to it like the spread of communism and how one country will fall to it and followed by the other, but one thing that benefited the world until the was the creation of new technologies by NASA during the war.
What if an asteroid came crashing into Earth and we couldn't stop it before it hit, the last one to come close was 14,400 km away from the center of the Earth and the size of it was between 10-31 meters. What if we run out of a nonrenewable resource such as iron which could run out in the next 64 years even with the vast iron reserves. Most Americans believe that the U.S. needs to lead in space exploration so we can claim rare resources found in space.
“The result is not only fantastic scientific discoveries, but also many useful inventions. From healthier baby foods to technology to better diagnose breast cancer, to farther fly golf balls, NASA technology is all around humanity” (Nine Good Reasons for Space Exploration n.pag). NASA’s exploring and traveling find discoveries, but also improves technology and inventions in general. Also, the more we explore the more answers we will find, “How did life begin? How was our world created? Are we alone? Now, because we are smart enough and bold enough to explore the universe, we are finding the answers” (Nine Good Reasons for Space Exploration n.pag). People who are brave enough to explore will help us be educated on the questions we have been wanting to be answered. Overall, exploring will help humanity progress in education and