Key Technological Advances of Earth and space exploration

The first Rocket was the V2 used by the German military. The first rockets were built by German Rocket engineer Werner Von Braun. Werner served the Nazi's in World War II and made the V2 Rocket which was the worlds first long range ballistic missile that cam cause severe damage to enemy military forces. After World War II Von Braun became an important rocket engineer for the US. Von Braun instantly became an important figure. With the USSR launching Sputnik 1 in 1957 the US was in a desperate state to get ahead of their Russian counterparts.Thanks to Von Braun in 1969 Von Braun made the Saturn V(Saturn five) rocket which was one of the first successful rockets ever made. But starting in 1979 NASA has began it's probing run meaning it has launched a series of probes that shall be sent into space for space exploration of our solar system and beyond. The reason being for such probes was The United States was in the Space Race with the Soviet Union. At the time The Soviet Union was one of biggest nations in the world that had an edge in technological advances. And so The United States was the USSR's rival. Starting in 1979 the US launched a series of probes that went into space and had a mission which was to explore different planes and open more of our knowledge of our solar system. As decades pass it wouldn't be until 1990 that NASA launched the Hubble space Telescope that allowed scientists to catch a glimpse of what is beyond our solar system. But it wasn't until 1998 that NASA launched the International Space Station. The ISS was a research laboratory that stayed in Earth's low orbit and collected information about other planets stars and its surrounding environment (Kauderer).
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Kauderer, A. (n.d.). International Space Station. Retrieved Janurary 14, 2011, from http://www.nasa.gov: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html