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 ...

Before the Space Race, American soldiers and sailors competed against the Soviets to launch balloons high into the upper ...

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

The New Space Race Since the last landing on the Moon by Apollo 17 in 1972, men have not ventured into space further than near-Earth orbit. This can also be considered the date at which space ...

No need to panic. That cracking sound you heard at the start of the December Foal Sale was just Shirley Anderson-Jolag ...

The Starship's many engines are isolated from each other, preventing the risk of one engine failure causing failure of all as in the case of the Soviet Union's N1 rocket, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on ...

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 achieve that first "one small step" on the moon was a symbolic and ...

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 ...