National Aeronautics and Space Administration Technical Dilemmas

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In your American History course, you will utilize scholarly sources to address questions in the weekly assignments. Please be advised that History.com, Wiki, Wikipedia, or websites such as cliffnotes.com, studymode.com, coursehero.com, and the like are not deemed scholarly sources. Therefore, use your course text and incorporate an additional scholarly source from the Chamberlain Library in your response.

Below is a list of resources you must choose from:

Instructions

Pick one (1) of the following topics. Then, address the corresponding questions/prompts for your selected topic using the resources above.

  • It’s highly recommended that you download and use the suggested assignment template for each topic to complete this case study.
  • When you complete the template, upload and submit it in the assignment dropbox on this webpage.

Topic 4

The Rise of Information Age – Science and Technology: 

  • Describe the technical and political dilemmas experienced by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in its efforts to meet Kennedy’s goal of putting an astronaut on the Moon before the end of the 1960s.
  • Assess technological advances during the Cold War in space exploration and military initiatives.
  • Differentiate how civilian science led to the prominence of biotechnology and other medical research from the government.
  • Examine how the technological advances in the 20th century revolutionized medical science and opened the way for computers and the internet.
  • Distinguish how the United States during the 20th century became one of the most scientifically oriented societies in the world today.

Topic 4 Assignment TemplateLinks to an external site. (Recommended)

National Aeronautics and Space Administration technical dilemmas

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