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30 de sept. de 2016 · LIFE’s all-new special edition, The Great Space Race: How the U.S. Beat the Russians to the Moon recaptures those heady days, tracing the race’s early days and the politics surrounding it, the race to develop technology, and the elation of an entire nation as we watched the 1969 liftoff to the moon.
Join Anne Morrow Lindbergh and her aviator husband, Charles, as they visit the Apollo 8 crew on the eve of their historic holiday mission. Watch from the top of the rocket launcher as LIFE's...
22 de feb. de 2010 · On October 4, 1957, a Soviet R-7 intercontinental ballistic missile launched Sputnik (Russian for “traveler”), the world’s first artificial satellite and the first man-made object to be placed into...
12 de abr. de 2022 · By Amy McKeever. April 12, 2022. • 12 min read. Tensions ran high at the Baikonur Cosmodrome on the morning of April 12, 1961, as the Soviet Union prepared to launch the first human into space....
6 de mar. de 2023 · What exactly was the Space Race? Why did we care so much? The Space Race grew out of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, the most powerful countries after World War II. For a half-century, the two superpowers competed for supremacy in a global struggle across a variety of areas from military might to consumer ...
The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the United States and the Soviet Union, to achieve superior spaceflight capability.
23 de ago. de 2023 · Despite the United States’s hopes that it would beat the Soviet Union in launching the first artificial satellite into space, initial launch attempts using the Navy’s Vanguard rocket ended in disaster. Public response to the Vanguard failures prompted national soul-searching in the United States.
