Essay On Sputnik
After the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki with 129,000 - 226,000 deaths, World War II was put to an end. As the tail came to an end a new war was born between the Soviet Union and the United States, not only in warfare but also in political-economics, military superiority and most importantly in technological advances and applying them. The intense rivalry between the communist Soviet Union and the democratic capitalist United States took to the skies with the new advancements in rockets, satellites and the space race. In response to Soviet Union’s Sputnik, in 1958 United States established their response. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) brought into the world. The Creation of NASA was the most influential
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President Eisenhower signed an act in 1958 that authorizes the creation of NASA. This action was seen as a huge step in the progression in space and technology in the United States (History.com). A big reason of NASA’s founding was in response to the Soviet Union’s Sputnik launch. Sputnik was a very crucial piece with the first artificial satellite to be launched into space and orbit. The technology displayed with Sputnik was superior to anything America had at the time and this worried the United States and the citizens especially in long distance missiles and nuclear bombings. (The American Vision). NASA was born out of fear and placed at the back of the race to try to catch up to the Soviet Union. With the creation of NASA and an already superior Soviet Union in regards to Sputnik the Space Race was born. The Space Race came to an end when NASA landed the first person on the moon winning the technological battle for superiority. On July 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong took a giant leap for mankind and was the first person to land on the moon. Planting the United States flag on the moon marked the end of the Space Race with United States on top (Dunbar, Brian, Nasa.gov). NASA successfully defeated the Soviet Union and established a state of technological space superiority over them and the rest of the world. NASA’s
President Eisenhower signed an act in 1958 that authorizes the creation of NASA. This action was seen as a huge step in the progression in space and technology in the United States (History.com). A big reason of NASA’s founding was in response to the Soviet Union’s Sputnik launch. Sputnik was a very crucial piece with the first artificial satellite to be launched into space and orbit. The technology displayed with Sputnik was superior to anything America had at the time and this worried the United States and the citizens especially in long distance missiles and nuclear bombings. (The American Vision). NASA was born out of fear and placed at the back of the race to try to catch up to the Soviet Union. With the creation of NASA and an already superior Soviet Union in regards to Sputnik the Space Race was born. The Space Race came to an end when NASA landed the first person on the moon winning the technological battle for superiority. On July 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong took a giant leap for mankind and was the first person to land on the moon. Planting the United States flag on the moon marked the end of the Space Race with United States on top (Dunbar, Brian, Nasa.gov). NASA successfully defeated the Soviet Union and established a state of technological space superiority over them and the rest of the world. NASA’s