Analysis of Documents 1 and 2 :
Doc. 1 In 1952, scientists made July 1957 to December 1958 the International Geophysical Year because of certain factors. In July 1955, The White House released plans to launch a satellite. It started the beginning of a bunch of new technological advancements. The launching of Sputnik I was a big event.
Doc. 2 President Kennedy wanted the science community to launch a satellite so that he could put a person on the moon by the end of the 1960’s. Doing this under a lot of pressure was hard. The vast majority of the Federal budget went towards Apollo because the project cost twenty four billion dollars.
Analysis of Event as a Cause or Effect:
Doc. 1 The Sputnik launch and the White House preparations happened because the International Council of Scientific Unions created the International Geophysical Year because of the anticipated significance of the “cycles of solar activity ( according to Document 1, from NASA’s History web site).
Doc. 2 “By 1966, the 10,000 people employed at the space agency in 1960 had grown to 36,000. NASA’s annual budget increased from 500 million dollars in 1960 to a high point of 5.2 billion dollars…” ( according Document 2, from National Park Service’s website) because President Kennedy wanted a person on the moon by the end of the 1960’s.
My predictions about future events like the one described in the two documents:
Our technology will keep advancing and improving. Soon, we will be able to travel to mars or venus soon. We will be able to make suits of some sort to be able to assist to sustain life on other planets.
The U.S.A. or Switzerland (IMD world competitiveness rankings 2019 pg. 37), will because advanced technologies possessed will send a person to a new uninhabited planet,moon, etc. and others will follow after us.