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 ...

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 just starting when, fearing capture by vengeful Russians ...

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 ...

In the 1950s and 60s, during the peak of the Cold War and the intense space race, the American military developed an ambitious plan to establish a military base on the Moon. The project ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...