During the Cold War, American and Soviet scientists embarked on an unprecedented quest to contact extraterrestrials. But communicating across the Iron Curtain could be just as hard as sending messages ...
cosmonaut Alexei Leonov Peter Gorin. NASA. The Space Race was a battle in the Cold War, a technological battle fought by Soviet and American scientists and engineers, and by Soviet cosmonauts and ...
From a spacecraft’s coolant leak to the disintegration of the Soviet Union, astronauts have gotten stuck in space for a ...
Discover five inspiring books for space enthusiasts' cosmic adventures ... Stephen Walker's "Beyond" details Gagarin's journey and the Soviet space program's preparations preceding Alan Shepard ...
It was the beginning of the space age: the launch by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957 of Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial satellite. With the Soviet Union and the US locked in an ...
cosmonaut Alexei Leonov Peter Gorin. NASA. The Space Race was a battle in the Cold War, a technological battle fought by Soviet and American scientists and engineers, and by Soviet cosmonauts and ...