Launching NASA
1.1 The Soviet Union and the 1940’s
Late in the 1940’s, the Department of Defence started to research of rocketry and upper atmospheric sciences, this was to ensure that the United States stayed the world’s most advanced country ,as in technology wise. The Soviet Union also pursued research, but The United States made a big step forward when Dwight D. Eisenhower, the President at the time, approved to orbit a satellite from July 1, 1957 to December 31, 1958. This was to study the Planet …show more content…
This mission allowed the U.S. to win the race to the moon. The Apollo mission, accomplished landing the first humans onto the moon and safely bringing them back to Earth. There were a total of seventeen space flights of Apollo. Most of the missions did not even try to land on the moon, but rather go to it and orbit it, then return back to Earth. The first couple of missions were conducted in order to get a better look of the moon to get more information about landing there. The final mission of Apollo accomplished the overall goal of landing on the moon and