The Space Race: a Race for Supremacy and Technological Dominance

The Space Race left an extensive effect in the field of space travel and led to a whole new advancements into new technologies like Satellite TV, smoke detectors, GPS, The joystick and many other technologies. It also incited many nations to send unmanned spaceships to the Moon, Venus, Mars etc. It additionally made conceivable human spaceflight in low Earth orbit and to the Moon when the Soviet Union launched the world's first satellite called Sputnik. At the time the United States and the Soviet Union were major opponents. After the dispatch of Sputnik the Americans dreaded the soviets had control of space and potentially launching missiles or other weapons at the US.

The Space Race began during the Cold War in the 1950's. The race began on October 4, 1957, when Russia launched the world's first unmanned satellite and the first manned ship to be put into the Earth's orbit. They launched a satellite called Sputnik 1, and the only thing it did was send a beep back and forth to the Soviet mission control. In 1958, the U.S. launched a satellite called Explorer I, and it was structured by the U.S. Armed force under the scientific genius Wernher von Braun. Additionally in 1958, President Eisenhower marked an open request making the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The NASA organization was committed to space investigation and space flight. Another association called the National Reconnaissance Office, would utilize orbiting satellites to gain knowledge on the Soviet Union and its allies. In 1959, the Soviet space program launched the Luna 2, and this was the main space launch that propelled the new technologies in the Space Race. This achievement by the Soviets was enormous in the Space Race since they could launch a rocket to the moon, they were in route to put a man on the moon. In 1961, on board the Vostok 1, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man to go into space, and became the first man to orbit the Earth. These rockets were first tried by chimpanzees and dogs with the goal that the Soviets would have the option to see if it was steady and safe enough for a human to launch into space. With this progression, Russia was leaving the US behind in the Space Race. This was true until the US brought a lot of German scientists that were starting to design rockets for the Nazis in WWII. This supported the US's advancement by a great deal and gave them a possibility at putting a man on the moon. In February 1962, John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth. December 1968 saw the launch of Apollo 8. On July 16, 1969, U.S. space explorers Neil Armstrong, Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin and Michael Collins set off on the Apollo 11 spacecraft, the first lunar landing ship. In the wake of landing safe and according to plan on July 20, Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon's surface

The Space race led to many advances in technology and space travel. Space travel advancements boosted the production of both technologies that made for the better for humans and some for the worse for humans. Effects incorporate all the advancements and advantages that came from this race, such as new devices and technologies that spin off into the marketplace and go into the market for humans. The Earth is presently encompassed by a huge system of satellites, which give nonstop broadband correspondences and top notch TV, information utilized for advanced weather forecasting. GPS was also initially created by the military for accuracy route and weapon focusing purposes. The GPS designers likely didn't anticipate how this innovation would change pretty much every industry, in everyday life and on a worldwide scale. Innovation from the space race has likewise been applied to legitimately improve the betterment and create a small chance for danger, accidents or injury. The creation of icing frameworks allowed airplanes to securely fly in cold climates. As well as security, which initially was utilized to lessen airplane crashes on wet runways and is utilized on our roadways to forestall auto collisions. Things such as Smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, were first produced for NASA and would be aboard the space ships to detect any dangerous gasses or leaks. The Space Race also led to many advancements that would be nothing like they are today. For example the improvement of insulation on homes was advanced because in space there are very cold and very hot temperatures. So advanced insulation was created from the advancement in space travel. Another example would be the advancement of better tires, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company built up a thick and very durable rubbery material and it was very successful. Goodyear also helped NASA use parachute covers to float and land the Viking Lander shuttle on the Mars surface. Perceiving the sturdiness of the material, Goodyear extended the innovation and proceeded to create another outspread tire with a track life expected to be 10,000 miles more noteworthy than traditional radials. Intergraph Government Solutions built up its Video Analyst System by expanding on Video Image Stabilization and Registration Innovation made by NASA to help FBI specialists break down video film. Initially utilized for improving video pictures from stabilizing recorded tapes made with hand-held camcorders, VAS is an instrument for video upgrade and investigation offering the backing up of all video and advanced video, adjustment, frame by-frame examination, change of simple video to computerized capacity designs, and expanded recorded subjects without modifying fundamental film. One very important but small technology is Velcro, a Swiss creation from the 1940s. Velcro was utilized during the Apollo missions to keep hardware connected to space explorers, it is utilized for hands free connection in zero gravity circumstances. Other than new technologies The Hubble Space Telescope was created out of this race and has contributed in excess of a million perceptions of the universe that have been compelling in understanding the greatness of the universe since its first launch into orbit. The extraordinary focal point of Hubble is for using it to see at long distances. The Hubble has been utilized to find cosmic systems and planets all over the universe. It was pointed at a bit of dark space for ten continuous days and the resulting picture, the Hubble uncovered at a rate 1,500 galaxies in that little area in the sky. Perspectives like this, permit the acknowledgment of the size and extent of the bigger general comprehension of the sorts and fluctuations of galaxies out in space. The Hubble Space Telescope has cost about $12 billion over the most recent 30 years including the expense of five transport adjusting missions, the Hubble gives a superior understanding that would not be conceivable on from earth telescopes. Communications was drastically advanced from the race and would forever change the world. The first satellite that would be a real correspondence to the first satellites of present day models was launched on July 10, 1962, and it was named Telstar. It allowed the communications between the United States and Europe to happen nearly instantaneously. Telstar worked for roughly a year prior to it shut down, yet even with its somewhat short life expectancy, it demonstrated that long distance communications by satellite was conceivable. Presently, undeniably increasingly modern communication satellites can be utilized to communicate in remote territories with the utilization of satellite telephones, to give web access on carrier flights, and give web to zones that can't get web in any other way. The quantity of communication satellites has since extended to around 2,000 which can give consistent correspondence around the world

With all of these new and great technologies, there were also some changes that happened because of the space race that had a negative effect on the betterment of the world. After World War 2, a ton of Nazi rocket scientist were enlisted by the U.S. space program, Researchers like Wernher von Braun and Hermann H. Kurzweg went from Nazi labs directly to NASA labs, desiging missions with NASA and turning out to be an outstanding specialists. Another outstanding person was Hubertus Strughold, a man frequently celebrated as the purported 'Father of Space Medicine,' despite the fact that his past profession in Germany may have included human experimentations. Other negative effects that the Space Race had, would be the fear of both US and Soviet citizens from being attacked from space. Citizens were from the US side were especially terrified from this because the Soviets were the first to launch a satellite into space. This sparked the advancement of space travel on the US side. The reason people thought there would be weapons or nukes in space was because of the Cold War and the growing tension between the US and Russia. Russia tried everything to beat the US in the Space Race and they were willing to make sacrifices to get there. The Soviets tinkered with everything from observing orbiting space crafts with available quick fire guns to alleged 'suicide satellites.' These kamikaze satellites were intended to move toward an adversary satellite in a circle and afterward explode.