The space race was a series of competitive technology demonstrations between the United States and the Soviet Union, aiming to ... It would be a great propaganda coup. In the global South, you ...

Joseph Stalin’s plan to modernize the Soviet Union’s economy ... titled “Imagining the Future in Soviet Propaganda Posters: Metaphors of Time as Space.” “After looking at these posters I did some ...

Sound like something from a movie script? It really happened." The space race between the United States and the former Soviet Union was in full acceleration mode during late 1950, cascading into ...

The most striking feature of the Almaz station was the 23mm Nudelman-Rikhter (NR-23) cannon, a modified aircraft gun adapted ...

A new book explores the legacy of the Soviet Union’s human spaceflight program ... During the initial years of the Cold War space race, the Soviets were outright winning. They completed a ...

which at several moments put the world on the brink of a nuclear war and also drove the Space Race. The Soviet Union's full name was the "Union of Soviet Socialist Republics" or U.S.S.R. "Soviet ...

The Space Race was an era when the world's most powerful nations, the United States and its ideological rival the Soviet Union, engaged in a heated competition to see who could make more progress ...

It was a pivotal moment in the space race between the United States and Soviet Union that would put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. But it isn’t where the story of human spaceflight ...

Time was, the Soviet Union fairly owned Venus. From 1961 to 1983, the U.S.’s old space race rival launched 16 probes, Venera 1 through Venera 16, that either flew by, orbited, or landed on Venus ...

discussed the beginning of the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union. This event took place at the Virginia Museum of History and Culture in Richmond, Virginia.