Historical Overview

The Cold War occurred during 1945 and 1980, it was a conflict between communist country as the Soviet Union and democratic country as the United Sates of America in where aggression was not part of this war. One major result of the Cold War was the advance of Science and Technology, the one brought results such as Sputnik, having the First Human Landed to the moon and the SDI “Star War”.


Sputnik was one of the scientific and technology result during the Cold War. In October 4, 1957 Soviet Union developed the first worldwide missile artificial satellite the one launched into space and took 98 minutes to orbit the Earth in it is elliptical way. The Soviet’s were the first one to achieve this goal that in some other way brought a feeling of patriotism but at the same time a feeling of completion. Having the result of Sputnik it brought the world into a new “space age” the one will led the Unites States to the creation of the NASA and began a project of having for the first time a human on the moon.


July 20,1969 The United States of America send the first man to landed to the moon. Apollo 11 was the fist spaceflight that made successfully the planning of having for the first time in history a man landed to the moon. This mission was commanded by Neil Armstrong Command Pilot and first to put a foot in the moon, Michael Collinis Command Module Pilot and Edwin Eugen Lunar Module Pilot. These first three astronauts were the ones that made this mission plan significant, successful important to Unites States. Once again the Unites Sates was the first country that made a huge national and global success in terms of science and technology in history.

By March 23,1983, President Ronald Regan designed a program called The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), more recognized by “Star War”. The purpose of this program was to develop a new anti-ballistic missile system to prevent sooner missile attack from powerful countries the ones had easily access to missiles weapons specifically the Soviet Union and prevent attack from air. By having this program this will bring a huge change in science around the world because it will bring positives and negative results the ones will have an effect of created new weapon effect in the word.