Humans from the beginning were always fascinated with space from the old astrologers to present-day stargazers. People have always made theories about what is out there in space, but nobody ever went to space, until the age of space exploration. 

People for a long time have improved their abilities to view space through the constant improvement of the telescope causing people to see farther and farther into space, but never being able to go to space itself. The V-2 rockets of Germany were the first manmade object that is able to go to space itself, which made people not only look into space, but one day be in space.

Going to space wasn’t the priority in post WW2 world until the beginning of the Cold War when the Soviet Union launched the Sputnik 1 satellite, which alarmed the western nations because of being inferior in space technology to the Soviet Union, which started the space race between the east and the west, which greatly boosted the push for space exploration.

The space race was intense between America and the Soviet Union fighting for every inch of ground for being the one superior in space technology. The Soviet Union at the beginning of the space race was winning constantly, by sending the first satellite into space, then sending the first animal to space, then even sending the first human to space, but eventually, America caught up and did the most incredible thing. 

America worked hard to beat the Soviet Union setting an ambitious almost impossible goal of walking on the moon. On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon, a momentous historical landmark of space exploration, where humans have walked on another planet.

In the present-day space exploration has gone further to new limits like having people live in space in the international space station and also having satellites connecting many technologies on earth for humans to use, and even sending satellites into uncharted space to drift along documenting the world unseen from the earth, exploring space to this day.