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The latter period of the space race began with the United States landing the first men on the moon, and was followed by the Soviets operating the first space stations and putting the first robotic landers on Venus and Mars, the US space shuttles marking the first significant reusable space vehicles, and a cooling down of tensions with the first ...
A Moon landing or lunar landing is the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon, ... Reaching for the Moon: A Short History of the Space Race; Apollo 11, ...
Sputnik and the Soviet Space Challenge. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. ISBN 978-0-8130-2627-5. Siddiqi, Asif A. (2003b). The Soviet Space Race with Apollo. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. ISBN 978-0-8130-2628-2. Thompson, Neal (2004). Light This Candle: The Life & Times of Alan Shepard—America's First Spaceman.
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket slated to launch landers for both Firefly and Ispace is set to lift off as soon as 1:11 a.m. ET Wednesday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
NASA clinches the space race with the Soviets in 1969 with a moon landing by Apollo 11’s Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Twelve astronauts explore the surface over six missions, before the ...
Although he called for competition with the Soviet Union, Kennedy also proposed making the Moon landing a joint project. The speech resonated widely, although there was disquiet about the cost and value of the Moon-landing effort. Kennedy's goal was realized posthumously, on July 20, 1969, with the Apollo program's successful Apollo 11 mission.
Fifty years after Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins blasted off for the moon, a new space race is on. As anniversary celebrations get underway, NASA finds itself in the midst of a ...
The first crewed missions to the Moon were pursued by the Soviet Union and the United States, becoming the climax of the Space Race. While the Soviet Union shifted to robotic sample return missions , the American Apollo program proceeded successfully, with Apollo 8 becoming the first crewed mission to enter lunar orbit in December 1968.