The US were spurred on by competing with the USSR during the cold war years.
Werhner Von Braun
The first program to put a man in space was the Soviet Union's Vostok program, so the second manned space program would be the US Mercury program. The second US manned program was Gemini.
The Apollo program
Development for the space program include research into manufacturing methods and device miniaturization to reduce the weight and size of equipment going into the space vehicles. This was needed to minimize the amount of material to be launched into space. It resulted in many inventions and the development of new materials in manufacturing as well as the development of sensors and medical equipment such as the pacemaker. Much of this was made available to the public and businesses in various ways such as the publication of the Nasa Tech Brief magazine. Without the space program we would be without all these benefits and life saving equipment.
The US space program is the only one to have put men on the moon.
The US were spurred on by competing with the USSR during the cold war years.
Mainly the fact the the Russians had already put a satellite and a man in space and were planning a mission to the moon. The Americans wanted to beat Russia to it.
Werhner Von Braun
The US space program that put astronauts on the moon was called the Apollo program.
The first program to put a man in space was the Soviet Union's Vostok program, so the second manned space program would be the US Mercury program. The second US manned program was Gemini.
The Pioneer space program was a series of unmanned missions to explore the planets in more detail. It was a US space program.
Development for the space program include research into manufacturing methods and device miniaturization to reduce the weight and size of equipment going into the space vehicles. This was needed to minimize the amount of material to be launched into space. It resulted in many inventions and the development of new materials in manufacturing as well as the development of sensors and medical equipment such as the pacemaker. Much of this was made available to the public and businesses in various ways such as the publication of the Nasa Tech Brief magazine. Without the space program we would be without all these benefits and life saving equipment.
The US Apollo program.
Apollo Program
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The Apollo program
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