A World in Pictures- James Jones

     

       This is a picture of Buzz Aldrin with the U.S. flag on the moon during the mission Apollo 11 of 1969. This event held a great significance with the people of the U.S. as it marked the end of the space race and the possibilities of technology. The winning of the space race helped the U.S. in asserting a sort of dominance in the Cold War and allowed them to take a stronger stance as a world power.  The fact that technology made this event possible led people to think about how much further it could go, about how much it was truly capable of, and about how much more useful it was than they may have realized at the time. And since then many more advances have been made, thanks to the ever growing interest in technology that was also contributed to by the space race.