Successes
There were alot of Successes after and during the Space race. The United States got national pride for being the first country to go to the moon and in space. They also got a nice Partnership with Russia when they wanted to build a space center together. There was also a big increase in technology and education. In technology especially in aerospace engineering, electronics, and telecommunication fields advances greatly during these years.However, the effects of the Space Race went far beyond rocketry, physics, and astronomy. "Space age technology" extended to fields as diverse as home economics and forest defoliation studies, and the push to win the race changed the very nature of science education.
American concerns that they had fallen behind the Soviet Union in the race to space led quickly to a push by legislators and educators for greater emphasis on mathematics and the physical sciences in American schools. The United States' National Defense Education Act of 1958 increased funding for these goals from childhood education through the post-graduate level. To this day over 1,200 American high schools retain their own planetarium installations.
Scientist were also educated through these efforts, they helped with the development of technology that have been used in the kitchen, in transportation systems, in athletes, and in many other areas of modern life.Dried fruits and ready-to-eat foods (in particular food sterilization and package sealing techniques), stay-dry clothing, and even no-fog ski goggles have their roots in space science.
Today over a thousand of artificial satelites orbit earth, communications data around the planet and facilitating remote sensing of data on weather,vegetation, and human movements. Also much of the micro-technology that fuels everyday activitives, form time keeping to enjoying music, which all come from research initially driven by the Space Race.
American concerns that they had fallen behind the Soviet Union in the race to space led quickly to a push by legislators and educators for greater emphasis on mathematics and the physical sciences in American schools. The United States' National Defense Education Act of 1958 increased funding for these goals from childhood education through the post-graduate level. To this day over 1,200 American high schools retain their own planetarium installations.
Scientist were also educated through these efforts, they helped with the development of technology that have been used in the kitchen, in transportation systems, in athletes, and in many other areas of modern life.Dried fruits and ready-to-eat foods (in particular food sterilization and package sealing techniques), stay-dry clothing, and even no-fog ski goggles have their roots in space science.
Today over a thousand of artificial satelites orbit earth, communications data around the planet and facilitating remote sensing of data on weather,vegetation, and human movements. Also much of the micro-technology that fuels everyday activitives, form time keeping to enjoying music, which all come from research initially driven by the Space Race.
