During the cold war the Soviet Union sent a satellite and a man, Yuri Gagarin, into space. This scared the American public who thought the soviets could put a missal base on the moon and bomb us at will. The US quickly developed a space program, and sent a man into space within a month. Also later that year the US sent up a satellite that broad casted television programs. NASA then constructed a launch site in Cape Canaveral and mission control in Houston. We then began working toward going to the moon with Kennedy's famous quote “We choose not to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things not because they are easy but because they are hard. “ Seven year passed and then Neil Armstrong took the first step on the moon. The success of the space program greatly increased funding for scientific research. Universities also increased research programs.

-Spencer