Wernher von Braun

much of their lost prestige in the space in the space race by scoring the first in the field of satellites ( Logsdon 89). In 1958, the states launched a satellite, called Explore I, it was designed under the U.S Army, under the supervision of Wernher Von Braun a rocket scientist. This same year, was when President Eisenhower signed the public order creating NASA, National Aeronautic and Space Administration. NASA is a federal agency that’s dedicated to the space exploration.Eisenhower had…

activities of the Soviet military. On January 31, 1958, the United States launched their own space satellite, Explorer 1 (Dates and Events). Explorer 1 was designed by the U.S. Army and was launched under the direction of the rocket scientist Wernher von Braun. With the launch of Explorer 1 came the beginning of what has become known as the Space Race. That same year on July 29, President Eisenhower signed a public order bringing the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) into…

“That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” The famous words of the first man to take a step on the moon, Neil Armstrong, rocked the nation in 1969. Prior to the first human landing on the moon, the morale in the United States was depleted. In the early 1960’s, the people of the United States were coping with the Vietnam War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and civil rights for African Americans. Americans also felt uneasy about the ongoing Cold War with the Soviet Union and feared…

The Cold War started in 1941 was fought on geopolitical tension after world war 2. There was two powers the Eastern Bloc which was the Soviet Union and its satellite states and the Western Bloc which was the United States and its NATO allies. The Eastern Bloc was supporting communism. The western bloc would be supporting capitalism. The Eastern Bloc would contain the countries such as Vietnam, Soviet Union, Korea, Cuba, Hungary, Bulgaria, Lao, and China. The Eastern Bloc was more communism this…

America constantly seeks to be the global leader in every field on Earth, and following the Mercury and Apollo space programs it is was clear that America was at the forefront of that which was outside of Earth as well. Apart from more prestige and scientific knowledge through America’s triumph in the space race, a deeper connection between the individual and the grandeur of the cosmos become evident. Astronauts and spectators of the Mercury and Apollo missions gained a new perspective of their…

Exponential Innovations: The Tensions of The Cold War The world was thrust into the Atomic era by Fat Boy and Little Man, the two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of WWII (Nelson 212). These bombs served as a demonstration to the world of the immense power created by splitting the atom. This fostered the exigence for the prevailing global superpowers, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the United States (US), to develop larger, more destructive nuclear…

Its purpose was to detect cosmic rays while in orbit; unfortunately the satellite failed to ignite on its fourth stage in its launch process and never made it to orbit. During the time of Explorer 2, the Soviets were also at work with Luna 2, this probe became the first to hit the moon but after 33.5 hours into flight the signals were dead. The US then created another satellite, the fourth satellite by America, and the first satellite to be solar-powered. They created the Vanguard 1, the first…