Phillip Plait's Analysis

The space race was an event that shaped America as we know it, and the man that came up with the idea to control the moon, John F. Kennedy, had a major impact on history. The United States and Russia were competing to land on the moon during a time of tension. NASA’s funding increased to get an man

The Space Race was a 20th century competition between two Cold War rivals, the United States of America and the Soviet Union. This competition was held between 1955 until 1972 and enabled these two rivals to advance their ability of spaceflight and their exploration out of the Earth’s reach. The competition covered several ways in taking human life out of Earth’s orbit and to successfully bring them back home in the process. The Space Race brought about several controversial topics relating to how the USSR copied the methods conducted by the United States, how the United States retaliated against the USSR and the man landing was purposely staged or not. These factors contribute to a large extent on how the space race was won. The Space Race

In doing research on space exploration and specifically the Apollo Missions, I have learned a lot about the purpose and significance behind this exploration. The goals set by NASA for these missions was to “establish technology to meet other national interests in space, achieve preeminence in space for the United States and develop man's capability to work in the lunar environment”. The motivation to get a man to the moon (Apollo 11) had a lot to do with the Cold War with the Soviet Union. President John F. Kennedy gave a speech that was aimed to convince the people that it was time to advance and play our part in the world. Thousands of people worked on this project, but it was really a national effort. Several questions arose as each of the

Leading up to the Cold War is a perfect example of a time in history that shows mankind creating and adapting, which has been dubbed the space race. The space race was much more than producing the first man on the moon. Both the United States and the Soviet Union made amazing scientific discoveries of space during this time. The Soviet Union had many achievements in the space race that were not recognized, and it was the United States that did not acknowledge them. The Soviet Union stated out the Space Race with Sputnik and the United States ended it with the first man on the moon. The Space Race not only affected the outcome of the Cold War, but it also

During the Cold War, the political tension between the United States and the Soviet Union extended to a race of space exploration between the two countries. The Space Race began after the launch of Sputnik I in 1957, sending the United States in a state of panic. Americans felt threatened by the Soviet Union’s technological advancements and they feared that if they lost their status as the world’s dominate military power it would open them up to attacks from space. Almost everyone agreed that space exploration needed to be made a priority, but after failed attempts to launch their satellite, questions arose to whether or not space exploration deserved more federal attention. After much debate over the control of space research, the Department

The American government and the people of the world have always been fascinated and dreamed about going into space. The United States of America was first to land on the moon. But the US went to the moon to beat the Soviet Union due to the US and the Soviets being enemies in the Cold War. During World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union fought together as allies against the Axis powers. However, the relationship between the two nations was a tense one. Americans had long been wary of Soviet communism and concerned about Russian leader Joseph Stalin’s rule of his own country. The war among the US, and Soviet Union was called the Cold War which neither the United States nor the Soviet Union wanted to openly fight each other and they were afraid of each other’s power. Since the US went to space in 1969, why haven't we gone farther, it is 2016. But, if the United States never of went to space in the first place, the world as we know it would not be the same.

In 1961, the United States of America was embroiled in the Cold War with the Soviet Union. This confrontation was taking place not only on land, sea and air, but in space as well. On May 25th, 1961 recently elected US President John F. Kennedy addressed a joint session of Congress, during which he outlined his now famous Man on the Moon challenge. It was through this ambitious dream that the creation of the National Aeronautical Space Administration (NASA) came about, which President Kennedy challenged to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. Although he didn't live to see the achievement of his dreams, the United States successfully landed Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin on the moon on July 20, 1969 and

“Ignition sequence starts, three, two, one, all engine running, zero, lift off.” On July 16th 9:32 a.m., Apollo 11 was successfully launched as millions watched. Indeed, the lunar mission of the Apollo 11 was a new break through in the field of space exploration. Soon after, however, many controversies were raised on the authenticity of this event. Many critics of the lunar landing believe that this event was a hoax perpetuated to deceive the society. The debate, whether the moon landing of 1969 was a hoax or a true event, continues today.

The Cold War was a period where there was a lot of tension between the U.S. and Russia, with both sides harboring feelings of suspicion and even disgust for the other. However, terrible Russian-American relations and the possible catastrophic destruction of nuclear war was not the only thing the Cold War promoted. One of the effects of the Cold War was fierce competition in a lot of areas, such as maintaining influence in third world countries and, of course, the Space Race. As a result of this rivalry between Russia and the United States in supremacy in spaceflight capability, the American culture was dramatically changed in several ways such as the fact that Americans now perceive themselves to be the world’s leading super

Americans soon became worried, as it was close to the beginning of what would become to be known as the Cold War, of the fact that if the Soviet Union was in possession of missiles as powerful as the one used to launch the Sputnik mission (Balogh 14). As many feared, what was stopping them from using a similar missile on the United States in the event of political adversity? Likewise, during the beginning of the space race, there was a general lack of understanding behind the science of space. Many were enthusiastic for the new adventure, but even more knew nothing about space except what they had learned in science fiction novels and films (Engdahl 180). A combination of this fear of the Soviet Union’s missile capacity and a general dubiety regarding space exploration led to diverse opinions regarding America’s involvement in the space

In an era of great pain and suffering for families of the United States, the 60s, one man whom the people admired, set out to seek support for a huge adventure, where only one truth was known at the time of the rally. Great uncertainty lies ahead for putting a man on the moon but the taks must be taken on as fast as a speeding rocket. The space race is one that President Kennedy did not want to lose.

In researching the space explorations Apollo missions, I found it very interesting and fun to learn about what the motivation was at the time to drive them to put a man on the moon. During the 1950’s and 1960’s “scientific research was becoming a big business.”(1) This meant that there was some tension between scientist and those that would be working with NASA and the exploration of the moon.

In the 1960s the U.S. raced the Soviet Union to the moon determining which is the dominant nation. Apollo 11 was the first successful manned mission to the moon. Our first astronauts, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, played an important role in this mission. Having to be in space for about a week and pilot the spacecraft safely to the moon and back to Earth was a dangerous mission. With little time to pass Armstrong and Aldrin had to record their first steps on the moon, take close and far away pictures of the moon, and collect large samples of lunar material. Apollo 11’s success expressed the U.S.’s superiority over the Soviet Union.

When it comes to exploring new horizons there is always an inherent danger that comes with it. Whether it was Christopher Columbus and his venture to the new world, Lewis and Clark and there exploration of the American west, or the Astronauts who were the first to travel where no man had gone before. All of these people accepted the risk that comes with the adventure they were embarking on. The Apollo program was the world’s most ambitious project ever taken on. When John F. Kennedy proposed the idea of placing a man moon by the end of the 1960’s this was an extremely bold ultimatum too all of those involved in the space program. As we all know NASA achieved the goal when Apollo 11 landed on the moon in 1969. After America had accomplished this goal and beat the Soviet Union to the moon and then repeated the result on Apollo 12, Americans began to question why there tax dollars were being used to fund something after the goal had already been accomplished. And then came the near disaster of Apollo 13 that re-ignited American interest in space travel. Apollo 13 was a successful failure, while it did not achieve its goal of landing on the moon, it showed how good NASA’s people as well as their space crafts were, in that they were able to return the crew safely after such a catastrophic failure on the space craft, which was the NASA’s finest hour.

Kennedy (1917-1963) made the intense open claim that the U.S. would arrive a man on the moon before the decade's over. His expectation worked out on July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong of NASA's Apollo 11 mission, turned into the first man to set nourishment on the moon, viably winning the Space Race for the Americans. U.S. space travelers came to be seen as a definitive American legends, and earth-bound men and ladies appeared to appreciate living vicariously through them. Soviets, thusly, were envisioned as a definitive low lifes, with their monstrous, persevering endeavors to surpass America and demonstrate the force of the