Assignment 7

On October 4, 1957, Russia launched the first man-made satellite into space, sputnik 1. This was a fairly large accomplishment for Russia, however the largest impact this placed onto mankind was the start of the space age/ space race. The space race resulted in some of the greatest accomplishments in human engineering, making it, in my opinion, a very positive thing. The start of the space race caused the united states and Russia to compete for dominance in space exploration, dramatically increasing spending in education, research, technology, etc. Without this kind of competition to motivate an increase in space technology we possibly wouldn't have created the Hubble telescope (producing incredible pictures of our universe), pioneer 10 (increasing our knowledge of the outer planets), the international space station (living in space! increasing our ability to explore further into space). All of these accomplishments have stemmed from the beginning of the space race, and have helped us further our knowledge of our universe.