Personal Narrative Essay: America And The Space Race

It’s amazing how the same stars we look at today are the same ones, more or less, that all humanity has gazed upon. Plato, Queen Mary, Martin Luther King—the list is endless but these great historical figures have all seen the balls of light and gas that shine in the sky tonight. That’s all they are, floating matter in a vast, unknown space we call “outer space” simply because it resides outside the front door. Space. It envelopes us like an old, soft blanket with moth bites here and stains there. At other times, however, it seems as if it’s a blindfold; perhaps the dark universe is trying to protect us from a sinister power lurking in a black hole. It is possible we are all just a speck of dirt under a giant’s fingernail. Why were we put …show more content…
When Vladimir Putin unexpectedly died of a heart attack, his successor Alexander Petrov stole power and declared the United Nations treaty protecting the moon and other celestial bodies invalid.
In one of his many grandiose speeches, Petrov claimed “When I was a little boy, I remember the radio telling me the Americans had beaten us in the ‘Space Race’ by stepping foot on the moon. I know our nation was devastated. But no more—Russia shall gain the upper hand again. I hereby announce the nation of Russia to stake a claim on owning land on the moon. We will send people to create our own space station to be the first to have life on another planet!”
Now five years later, after Cold War hostilities and arguments over the property rights of our universe have come to a boiling point, the United Nations split the moon into four equal parts for the United States, Great Britain, China, and Russia. All other countries seeking property must ally with one of the four major nations. In a matter of weeks, the moon will be a construction site, and most likely dump, for humans to colonize once