Headlines of the 1950s and '60s seemed to indicate that the Soviet Union was light-years ahead of the U.S. throughout much of the space race. But behind the scenes, a very different story was ...

Here is the heartbreaking story of Laika, the soviet dog who became the first animal to orbit the Earth in 1957.

Laika, a Soviet dog, earned her place in history as the first living being to orbit Earth in 1957. Launched aboard Sputnik 2 ...

The Space Race was a battle in the Cold War ... Leonov recalled the reaction in the Soviet Union: "There were lots of letters addressed to the government, all of which asked how it could have ...

Lunar missions have become synonymous with a "space race." During the Cold War, the US and Soviet Union’s competition to ...

Lunar missions have become synonymous with a "space race." During the Cold War, the US and Soviet Union’s competition to achieve that first "one small step" on the moon was a symbolic and ...

A space race developed between the US and the then Soviet Union, after the 1957 launch of the first Soviet Sputnik satellite. When John F Kennedy became US President in 1961, many Americans ...

Lunar missions have become synonymous with a "space race." During the Cold War, the US and Soviet Union's competition to achieve that first "one small step" on the moon was a symbolic and ...