Cathleen Lewis, NASM curator of Soviet space history, is taking me through "Space Race," which starts with the German V-2 rockets, the kind used against London in World War II. The Cold War was ...

Human beings have always been fascinated by what’s going on above our heads. 5000 years ago, in the time of the ancient Babylonians, astrologers studied the stars in an attempt to predict the ...

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Simple History The Space Race (1955-1975) – USA vs. USSR Posted: 20 February 2025 | Last updated: 8 March 2025 The Space Race saw the USA and USSR battling for supremacy in space From launching ...

On March 18, 1965, cosmonaut Alexei Leonov made history - and left the Americans ... the Soviet Union was then far ahead of the USA in the space race, launching the first satellite, Sputnik ...

cosmonaut Alexei Leonov Peter Gorin. NASA. The Space Race was a battle in the Cold War, a technological battle fought by Soviet and American scientists and engineers, and by Soviet cosmonauts and ...

With America’s Space Shuttle fleet out of action, is it out of the race? Or has President George W Bush’s call to send humans to Mars put the US back in front? Is space exploration primarily a ...

November 3: Sputnik 2 carries Laika, a female dog, into space. Although the satellite will remain in orbit for 162 days, scientists plan to put Laika to sleep after a week because there is no way ...

Two of the world's richest and most powerful men have launched two of the world's largest rockets this week in an escalation of their corporate space race. This week SpaceX launched Falcon 9 ...

The gang talks about Texas’ role in the modern space race, what the aeronautics industry wants from the Legislature and, of ...