Why Did The Us Put A Man On The Moon

What led the Apollo program into full swing was the cold war. At the time, WW2 had ended and the United States and the Soviet Union were two competing major forces of power. They competed, politically, economically, militarily and finally technologically. When the Russians managed to put a satellite, “Sputnik” into space, the United States opened up Nasa and the space race had begun. Both nations raced to reach supremacy in space and the ultimate goal was to put a man on the moon. Whichever nation managed to do this first would have claim to having supremacy in space.

When approached with the task to actually be able to put a man on the moon, which was the ultimate goal, the United States took steps to reach the goal. The first step was to be able to put a man in orbit around the earth. When this was achieved, NASA studied the works of many Greek scientists to better understand the distance, mass and gravitational pull of the moon. Furthermore, the recruited German scientists who had already made advances in rocket science. This was crucial as to this point there was no method available to put a man past the gravitational pull of the earth.
There was little significance in being able to put a man on the moon other than space dominance. But what was significant was the ability to put satellites in orbit around earth. What we were able to do as of result was that we gained the Internet and we also were able to study space. This made great advances to our human race and gave way to the information age. Due to this, information was readily available to everyone and computer science was able to