The Space Race was a turning point in history because it showed America that if everyone worked together and pushed for something, they could do the impossible, it was a sign of the end of the Cold War era, and it was the achievements of the Space Race that shaped modern day space exploration.
Imagine this, the year is 1961 and the tension between the Soviet Union and the United States of America, two of the largest military powers on Earth, is at an all time high. Both countries have missles ready to attack the other at the first sign of trouble. This Cold War between the two has been going on for the past ten years and the citizens of both countries are in suspense about what might happen. Countries that the U.S. supports and countries the Soviet Union supports are praying nuclear warfare doesn't brak out between the two, and among all this tension the current president John F. Kennedy comes out and says something that will change the course of history for both these nations. "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth" Just the idea of landing a man on the moon in that short amount of time seems irrational to any sane person in the year 1961. Yet Kennedy had faith in the American people and knew that no limitations could and should be set on them. It's for that reason that Kennedy banded America together and collected the funds to make the impossible possible. Never before had someone captured the imaginations of millions and out them toward a common goal better then JFK. The American people thought about everything from aliens to the military implications of space. Every new channel was dominated with updates on the each side. In Soviet Russia, very little was cast about the space race, but in America not a single person didn't have their eyes on it. The idea that a man could actually be put on the moon by the end of the decade had spread like wildfire and k=now everyone wanted nothing but to know who was closer to achieving the impossible. Then, with everyone's attention on the achievements in space, the hundreds of thousands of engineers that had been put to work both in America and Soviet Russia, and with tension between the two countries higher then ever the American people and the world found themselves thrown into a race between communism and democracy, a fight against tyranny, the Space Race.
Imagine this, the year is 1961 and the tension between the Soviet Union and the United States of America, two of the largest military powers on Earth, is at an all time high. Both countries have missles ready to attack the other at the first sign of trouble. This Cold War between the two has been going on for the past ten years and the citizens of both countries are in suspense about what might happen. Countries that the U.S. supports and countries the Soviet Union supports are praying nuclear warfare doesn't brak out between the two, and among all this tension the current president John F. Kennedy comes out and says something that will change the course of history for both these nations. "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth" Just the idea of landing a man on the moon in that short amount of time seems irrational to any sane person in the year 1961. Yet Kennedy had faith in the American people and knew that no limitations could and should be set on them. It's for that reason that Kennedy banded America together and collected the funds to make the impossible possible. Never before had someone captured the imaginations of millions and out them toward a common goal better then JFK. The American people thought about everything from aliens to the military implications of space. Every new channel was dominated with updates on the each side. In Soviet Russia, very little was cast about the space race, but in America not a single person didn't have their eyes on it. The idea that a man could actually be put on the moon by the end of the decade had spread like wildfire and k=now everyone wanted nothing but to know who was closer to achieving the impossible. Then, with everyone's attention on the achievements in space, the hundreds of thousands of engineers that had been put to work both in America and Soviet Russia, and with tension between the two countries higher then ever the American people and the world found themselves thrown into a race between communism and democracy, a fight against tyranny, the Space Race.