In this time line, explore the Cold War's secret space race.—Rima Chaddha Following World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union entered into the Cold War game of spy-versus-spy that ...

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 ...

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Decades after the end of the space race, an American rocket took off ... After the end of the Cold War, American engineers started hearing about secret rocket technology developed in the 1960s ...

(via Kyle Hill) Could you see a nuclear explosion on the moon with the naked eye? That was the question posed by the United States military in the 1950s as the cold war was heating up and the space ...

And the speed of this race eclipses anything that happened in the Cold War. The net worth of the global space industry grew at its fastest pace ever in the last decade to reach a record £358billi ...

The playing field for space exploration is changing. The old Cold War divide between the USA and ... is it out of the race? Or has President George W Bush’s call to send humans to Mars put ...

The Cold War, a decades-long geopolitical standoff between United States and the Soviet Union, is one of the most defining periods of the 20th century. Marked b ...

It was called the Cold War, as the two sides never directly fought ... Each side also tried to show their technological superiority in the space race. The Soviets sent the first people into ...

Several US companies, such as Blacksky and Boeing, offer high-resolution, real-time satellite imagery crucial for winning any modern-day war ... A global space race – ignited by the dangers ...