China has already landed a rover on Mars—and that’s just the beginning. While most Americans remain unaware, China’s space ...

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 ...

November 3: Sputnik 2 carries Laika, a female dog, into space. Although the satellite will remain in orbit for 162 days, scientists plan to put Laika to sleep after a week because there is no way ...

The space race is reigniting, catalyzing changes in the new space economy. The space race is reigniting, catalyzing changes in the new space economy. The industry stagnated after the major ...

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 ...

The original space race was a key part of the Cold War, when the U.S. and the USSR competed to be the first country on the moon. Now almost 70 years later, the U.S. is in a new space race with a ...

That beep and the 1957 newspapers with their big black banners screaming that the Soviets had won the race into space introduce a fascinating new exhibition, "Space Race." I remember, as an editor ...

The post-Sputnik surge in science and technology was real, and necessary, but to the world outside of U.S. intelligence circles, it made the “space race” seem much closer than it actually was.

Japan is now in the space race. Here’s where other countries stand Only the United States, the Soviet Union, China, India, and now Japan have ever landed on the moon. ULA Vulcan rocket launch ...