The Space Race In The Twentieth Century

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The twentieth century was a remarkable by many aspects time in the world history. Time full of historical events, technological and scientific discoveries which still affect us today. World War I (WWI) and World War II (WWII) put a beginning of numerous technological and scientific innovations in the weapon production to protect and establish superiority of nations. At the end of WWII the United States (US) and Soviet Union (USSR) began a prolonged battle for political, diplomatic, military and technological superiority in context of Cold War that XXXXXXX …….. It was not a real fighting between of two superpowers, but the competition in space exploration to conquer space that continues from 1957-1975 year and ended up XXXXXXX(Science and Its Times, para. 1, 2001). Even though there are still be a big debates around world about when the space race began and who is winner, the Space Race itself was the extraordinary decades long event that changed world history profoundly by skyrocketing technological and scientific innovations to in the short time in the human history that still …show more content…
In October 1954, the resolution for launching artificial satellites during the IGY to map the Earth’s surface. In July 1955, the US introduced plans to launch first satellite to orbiting the Earth and petitioned proposals from many researchers agencies to start development. In a month, the Naval Research Laboratory’s Vanguard proposed project was chosen to represent the US during International Geophysical Year .The Soviet Sputnik I messed all the plans. To big negative surprise to the US ,Sputnik I attracted the world’s attention as huge technical achievement ( Steve Garber,

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