What Are The Negative Effects Of Space Exploration

The World War I had many negative effects on the world including the World War II, the birth of atomic bombs, and the Cold War. One positive effect though was the advancement in the field of space exploration. World War I, the first man-made catastrophe of the twentieth century, lasted four years, from July 28, 1914, to November 11, 1918. The war had two sides; the Central Powers and the Allied Powers. The Central Powers included Austria-Hungary, Germany, and the Ottoman Empire, while the Allied powers were comprised of Serbia, Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Japan, and later the United States. During the four years of the war, more than nine million soldiers died and 21 thousand were wounded. When the Allied Powers defeated the Central Powers, they made the Treaty of Versailles to …show more content…
The Soviet Union built their first atomic bomb and tested it in 1949. In response, President Truman announced that the Americans would build a deadlier atomic weapon, the hydrogen bomb. The first Hydrogen bomb was tested in Marshall Islands showing horrific results. The bomb vaporized the whole island and made a hole in the ocean floor. America and the Soviet Union also competed in the area of space exploration. On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite that would orbit in space. In response, the United States sent their first satellite in space in 1958. President Eisenhower then created National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) dedicated to space exploration. Russians were ahead and sent the first man in space in April 1961. Later in May 1961, after Alan Shepard became the first American in space, President Kennedy made a claim that U.S would be the first country to send a man on the moon. His claim became true on July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong, an astronaut on NASA’s Apollo 11 mission, became the first man to land on the moon, winning the space race for the