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This is a timeline of achievements in Soviet and United States spaceflight, spanning the Cold War era of nationalistic competition known as the Space Race. This list is limited to first achievements by the USSR and USA which were important during the Space Race in terms of public perception and/or technical innovation.
Wernher von Braun's space station concept (1952) Although Germans, Americans and Soviets experimented with small liquid-fuel rockets before World War II, launching satellites and humans into space required the development of larger ballistic missiles such as Wernher von Braun's Aggregat-4 (A-4), which became known as the Vergeltungswaffe 2 (V-2) developed by Nazi Germany to bomb the Allies in ...
The crisis was a significant event in the Cold War that triggered the creation of NASA and the Space Race between the two superpowers. The satellite was launched on October 4, 1957, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
On July 29, 1958, the US Congress passed legislation turning the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) into the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) with responsibility for the nation's civilian space programs. In 1959, NASA began Project Mercury to launch single-man capsules into Earth orbit and chose a corps of ...
Space Race, the Cold War geopolitical rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union in space primacy Moon Race, the race to have the first human landing on the Moon; Mars race, the rivalry between teams to put the first humans on or about the planet Mars; Billionaire space race, the entrepreneurial rivalry for private spaceflight ...
As a NASA science flight was flying over the Greenland ice sheet this spring, a surprise popped up on a specialty radar: a hidden Cold War city more than 100 feet beneath the ice.
In January 1951, cold-weather testing of the R-1 for quality assurance purposes was conducted. [ 5 ] : 149, 152 On 1 June, production of the R-1 was centralized and transferred to a former automobile factory in Dnepropetrovsk , and that month, [ 6 ] a test series of R-1s was successfully launched to the edge of space, all landing within 5.5 ...
Stephen Hawking is a supporter of space travel, in part, because he thinks the survival of humanity depends on it. ... A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, ... such as a sudden nuclear war, a ...