During the Cold War, American and Soviet scientists embarked on an unprecedented quest to contact extraterrestrials. But ...

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 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 ...

Moon missions have historically been dominated by the United States and USSR. In a frantic decade between 1966 and 1976, the Soviet ... And it's the reason the Space Race is being re-run.

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