Why The United States Never Went To Space

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. 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. During World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union fought together as allies against the Axis powers. After World War II tensions between the United States and Soviet Union, lasted for much of the second half of the 20th century. Americans had been cautious of Soviet's communism and concerned about their leader, Joseph Stalin’s. 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 because they were afraid of each other’s power. America and the Soviets had fought on land for the Cold War, but in 1961, president John F. Kennedy said that we must land a man on the moon. The …show more content…
The US went to space so that they could say they went first. With the US going, the country gained an outstanding space program.d with the space program, came guided missiles, because if you can launch a rocket in space, you can easily launch a missile to another country. The cost of space exploration was not cheap, it did cost a lot of money meaning one hundred billion dollars. If all of the countries around the world worked together, they would be able to build an outstanding rocket program. To think that one day you might life on Mars, or in another universe is outstanding. Change is good, so moving from Earth to another planet in the future will be like moving from one house to another. The future is here, and it is time to make