The space race was a series of competitive technology demonstrations between the United States and the Soviet Union, aiming to show superiority in spaceflight. It was an outgrowth of the mid-20th ...

The Space Race truly began to take flight when the Cold War heated up between the United States and the former Soviet Union in the late 1950s. The Soviets had managed to launch the first ...

The consecutive failures may have decreased the likelihood SpaceX can meet NASA’s goal of landing on the moon in 2027, ...

Outside of brief mentions as a political rivalry, the Space Race is generally mentioned alongside a list of other East-West events in history classes, nestling it between the Bay of Pigs Invasion, ...

Historically, the conflict of some civil rights leaders with NASA, the race ... events, like the murder of George Floyd. In telling the specific moving stories of a few men, “The Space Race ...