The IGY, they decided, would be celebrated in 1957.As part of the IGY, the Soviet Union vowed that it would launch an ...

His is just one of the gripping stories in this documentary about the black pilots, engineers and scientists who battled to play their part in the space race. Against the backdrop of civil rights ...

In this video, we dive into the origins of space stations, the Cold War space race, and how Soviet engineering shaped the future of human space exploration. Could we have the ISS today without the ...

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 “space race” narrative persists ... and footprints” approach is clearly the wrong way to go. Unlike the Cold War, today’s competition isn’t about a single milestone.

During the Cold War and the height of the Space Race, the U.S. military, including the Army and Air Force, looked at potential ways to arm troops in orbit. That ranged from handheld pistols that ...

which was a major source of Cold War tension in Europe. America and the Soviet Union were competing in the Space Race, trying to be the first country in the world to send a man to the moon and ...

The Cold War, a decades-long geopolitical standoff between United ... But the arms race wasn’t limited to bombs. The Space Race, ignited by the Soviet launch of Sputnik in 1957, was the battle for ...

Pituffik Space Base, originally named Thule Air Base, was formally established in 1951 as part of a Cold War-era defense treaty between the US and Denmark. It is located in Pituffik, Greenland ...

In the Bay Area, as elsewhere, the working classes have seen their jobs go overseas and their neighborhoods become ...

Planned trips this week to Greenland’s capital, Nuuk, and a dogsledding race were canceled ... it’s an artifact of the Cold War, but it’s also this incredibly important point for emerging competitive ...

Marko Djurica (REUTERS) Since 1943, the U.S. Armed Forces have operated the Pituffik military base in northwest Greenland, now under the command of the U.S. Space Force ... Once a potential flashpoint ...