Greatest Invention

Humans have been around for a long time. Over the course of so many years there have been great intelligence in the chosen people. These chosen people have greatly impacted the direction of human understanding and development. They have invented unique things.What I think the best invention in the history of man are those things that go into out space.. The Soviet Union were the first to produce an object into outer space, then came US with NASA. The very first space object was the Sputnik 1 made by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957. The launch of Sputnik 1 marked the beginning of the Space Race between the US and Soviet Union during the Cold War. The launch ushered in new political, military, technology, and scientific developments. The US reacted by investing a lot of money to fund schools in emphasizing the study of math and science. The president at the time passed a space bill that resulted in the creation of NASA.
Since the establishment of NASA resulting from the space bill, they have been discovering many things with all those space instruments that they made. NASA wasn't the first to launch living things into space but it was the Soviet Union that launched a dog into space and proved that living organisms can survive in outer space. The dogs name was Laika. NASA on the other hand was the first to launch man into outer space who was Neil Armstrong. Neil Armstrong along with Buzz Aldrin were the first humans to step foot on the moon which happened on July 20, 1969. Once on foot on the moon, Neil Armstrong famously said “that’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” On August 25, 2012, he died at the age of 82. 
I've been always fascinated with space shuttles and satellites and I've learned a lot about space and terrestrial events. Without space equipment, we wouldn't have a deeper meaning of the universe and why we are here. Various planets have been discovered and there are yet more to be discovered. Also with our technology we finally now know that Pluto is now not a planet but more of a White Dwarf. There are satellites that take images of outer planets. Without the help of satellites we wouldn't know the planets we know now and our understanding of them like thunderstorms in Jupiter and the Rings of Saturn along with its many moons orbiting in the rings. We also now know that Uranus has a slightly visible ring around it. As years go by, we achieve more understanding of the universe and how things happen because technology of satellites will always improve. Who knows, maybe we will actually discover another Earth! that'll be cool. (probably a parallel universe?) For a while NASA has been concentrated a lot on Mars even now since the deployment of the Curiosity drone. I've seen the panorama pictures that were taken by the drone and I have to say that they are really cool. Even though that so far the images have been only showing rocks and red sand I think that there's more to Mars and we need more time to explore. Hopefully we will discover fuel on Mars. I hope that someday in the future we will have space crafts that will launch trash into space and hopefully put them in another planet. Our Earth will be clean and everyone will live happily ever after. In the near future I hope that NASA will bring back their civilian space shuttle program because I really want to see outer space and the moon.