How did the moon landing change history?

Answer 1

it really all goes back to the late twentieth century. ever heard of the cold war? if not, the cold war was not really a war at all. more like a race. a race between the USSR and the US. also known as the "space race". the space race was a competition between the Soviet Union and the united states to see who had better technology, and who can send sattelites into space first. well the soviet union actually ended up sending the first sattelite called sputnik 1 into space, in 1957. and in 1961, the US was beat again when the soviet union sent its first astronaut into space. the first man to be sent into space was Yuri gagarin. but the US, being stubborn and prideful as we are, were determined to do the impossible, set foot on the moon, before the soviet union. well the "space race" quickly turned into a "moon race" as both countries fought to advance their technology and make it suitable for a man to actually set foot on the moon. im going to skip all the details. the US built the spacecraft Apollo 11 to land on the moon. Apollo 11 landed on the moon and July 20, 1969 and Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the moon. the reason why landing on the moon changed history is because of neil Armstrong's famous words when he set foot on the moon " That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." landing on the moon was a big deal not only because the US had won the race to the moon, but because president Kennedy had committed the United States to landing a man on the moon and bringing him back safely to the Earth before the end of the decade. so in short, the day the US landed on the moon was a big accomplishment and it led to thousands of new modernized forms of technology.