Answers. Best Answer: The moon landing made a very big political impact on the world, because it put the United States ahead of the Soviet Union in the space race.The Cold War was raging then, where the US capitalists and Soviet communists were trying to be the dominant ideology in Europe following the second World War.ans landing on moon gave rise to removal of many blind faiths that the moon was where aliens lived and that the moon is the other side of the sun.... Also, secondary effects were the impetus provided to the field of astronomy and the enthusiasm generated in every mans mind about the outer space.