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 ...

Suni Williams, fresh off a nine-month space expedition, had a 2007 Boston Marathon performance that was simply out of this ...

The third awardee was Voyager Space, a private space company now known as Voyager Technologies. In collaboration with Nanoracks and Lockheed Martin, it was granted $160 million for its efforts to ...

USA vs. USSR: Fierce rivals in the Space Race The USA and the USSR believed that whoever controlled space could control the destiny of the planet. During the 20th Century, in the years after World ...

cosmonaut Alexei Leonov Peter Gorin. NASA. The Space Race was a battle in the Cold War, a technological battle fought by Soviet and American scientists and engineers, and by Soviet cosmonauts and ...

One such company in this space race is the Texas-based firm Firefly Aerospace. On January 15, Firefly launched its Blue Ghost 1 mission, marking a significant milestone in the development of an ...

Two of the world's richest and most powerful men have launched two of the world's largest rockets this week in an escalation of their corporate space race. This week SpaceX launched Falcon 9 ...