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 Soviets in 1957, launched their first satellite called Sputnik. Then the US created a program in 1958 called the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, otherwise known as NASA. is used to describe the relationship between America and the Soviet Union 1945 to 1980. Neither side ever fought the other country, but they did fight for their beliefs using client states who fought for their beliefs on their behalf. With the US going to space we were able to create an outstanding missile program. With the missile program being created we were a country enemies would fear, due to us showing the world we can fire a rocket into space and can easily launch a missile anywhere in the country. The space program had a huge affect on the economics of America. The space program cost a total of one hundred billion dollars. With the United States going to space the country gained global supremacy from all the other countries around the world. From 1961 to 1964, NASA’s budget was increased almost 500 percent, and the lunar landing program eventually involved some 34,000 NASA employees and 375,000 employees of industrial and university contractors. Apollo suffered a setback in January 1967, when three astronauts were killed after their spacecraft caught fire during a launch simulation. Meanwhile, 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