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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What was known as the “space race” began in April 1961 ... the Apollo program and the space shuttle program. The Soviet Union also had its share of fatal accidents. One of its worst space ...

From the dawn of the Space Age, the prospect of American spacecraft approaching and inspecting Soviet military satellites—which, according to the Kremlin’s propaganda, were not even supposed ...

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 ...

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 ...

Credit: Keystone/Getty Images The space race between the United States and the former Soviet Union was in full acceleration mode during late 1950, cascading into the1960s. That two-country contest ...