America became a melting pot of entrepreneurial DNA. Nikola Tesla came to America to commercialize his AC power ideas. Silicon Valley came about because someone found this continent. Europe was stagnating in technological advances.

Albert Einstein used thought experiments about trains and elevators to came up with general relativity and how we view gravity. We wouldn't have accurate GPS if it wasn't for him.

It isn't possible for us to imagine what people will discover after being inspired by that journey to Mars.