Significance today

The significance of Apollo 11 today

Technology

Without Apollo 11 smartphones, tablets, and most computers would not exist today. The advancements made by the mission paved the way for smart phones, computers that do not take up entire rooms and the world wide web also known as the internet.

Medicine

The extreme conditions such as zero gravity, and intense radiation helped doctors to come up with new methods of treating bone and muscle loss and protection against radiation.

Technological dominence

When America put a man on the moon America established thier technological dominence over the Soviet Union and showed that democracy is supirior to comunism.

The colapse of the Soviet Union

Apollo 11 was a factor that leed to the collapse of the Soviet Union because after apollo 11 the soviet unionwanted to put a man on the moon themselves. America was able to put a man on the moon on thier first try to do so. The Soviet Union had multiple failed atempts before they succeded which put a large dent into thier funds which was a factor in thier colapse.

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