Although Gagarin had no control during his 108-minute flight, the Soviet Union beats the United States in the international race to put man in space.

‘The Space Race’ Review: Doc Reveals the Moving, Untold and Almost 60-Year History of a Few Black Astronauts Reviewed online, June 11, 2023. In Tribeca Film Festival (Spotlight Documentary).

Race to the Moon | Timeline The Space Race The three men responsible for the success of Explorer 1, America's first Earth satellite which was launched January 31, 1958. NASA 1957 ...

Two small spaceports in the far north of Sweden and Norway are racing to launch the first satellites from mainland Europe ...

The Cold War space race began with the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik, the first artificial satellite. The United States responded with the launch of Explorer 1, which discovered the Van Allen ...

To win the new space race, NASA and the DoD need to shift their collaboration into high gear by Colonel Matthew H. Beverly, Lt. Col (Ret) Patrick C. Suermann and Captain Arpan Patel December 22, 2023 ...