National Archives and Records Administration The space race between the United States and the Soviet Union stepped up a gear ...

From 1958 to 1963 the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics created an incredible collection of posters with over-the-top propaganda lines like that to inspire Russians in the space race.

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 ...

The "Luna 2" slammed into the Moon by design in 1959, becoming the first manmade object to reach the lunar surface. As you can see in the NASA image to the left, it looks like a pretty ungainly craft.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...