The Space Race ... in the Soviet Union: "There were lots of letters addressed to the government, all of which asked how it could have happened, how come Americans were ahead of us.

The Space Race ... in the Soviet Union: "There were lots of letters addressed to the government, all of which asked how it could have happened, how come Americans were ahead of us.

The Space Race of the 1960s was a monumental period in history. The competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to dominate space exploration captured the world’s attention ...

The Soviet Union was keenly aware the United States was building a ‘space bomber’ and quickly began development of their own manned spaceplane. While this Soviet Shuttle would not be as ...

The space race between the United States and the Soviet Union began in the middle of the last century. It was a military matter, since space represented the ultimate high ground from which the ...

Among other things, the Cold War was replete with examples of the United States ... Soviet Socialist Republics attempting to one-up each other in the arena of aerospace technologies. In the Space ...

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He was the most important technical contributor to Mikhail Gorbachev’s successful efforts to end the Soviet-US nuclear arms race ... space weapons in the Washington Post.[6] Banning nuclear tests In ...