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The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project brought Soviet cosmonauts and NASA astronauts together in the first international human ...
The Apollo project required a number of advanced achievements before a lunar landing was feasible.
The space race formally ended on July 17, 1975, when the U.S. and Soviet Union linked up in orbit and shook hands during the Apollo-Soyuz mission.
Rocket Guitars Another guitar making heavyweight, Gibson, watched America race through the lofty stratosphere and into space. Gibson, too, wanted in on the futuristic zeitgeist.
A timeline of major events in the decade-long race to land astronauts on the moon ...
But in the race, many of the particulars have been lost to the mists of history. So here are 11 Things You Might Not Know About Apollo 11 and the Space Race.
The Apollo 11 moon landing of July 20, 1969, and U.S.-Soviet Union Space Race that led up to it, star in CNN's 'The Sixties' tonight (July 17).
As we celebrates Apollo's iconic mission to the moon, remember something even greater is on its way.
With the private sector moving aggressively into space, NASA is no longer the only game in town for would-be space travelers.
Apollo 8 ended the space race. "I was there to participate in the Cold War battle with the Soviets," says Frank Borman, now 90 years old and the oldest living former American astronaut, from his ...
This month marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 crew landing on the moon. PBS is releasing a six-hour documentary series about it, “Chasing the Moon.” Marketplace’s Jed Kim watched ...
One of NASA's early robots, designed to test spacesuits for astronauts on the Apollo moon landings, is up for auction.