January 31: Explorer 1, the first American satellite, enters orbit around Earth. July: President Dwight Eisenhower signs the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 into law, establishing NASA.

While the space race of the 1960s was a contest between two rival superpowers, today it is being fought by private space ...

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 ...

Khrushchev blames the Russians’ defeat in the Space Race as much on the long-rang planning and smart engineering of the American program as on the infighting and competition within the Soviet ...

America had undoubtedly won the Space Race and changed the course of human history forever. The American Apollo 11 Lunar Lander (which reached the Moon) and the Russian LK-3 Lunar Lander (which ...

The Chinese spacecraft, akin to the American X-37B, remains largely cloaked in mystery, with only scant knowledge about its capabilities. Western experts surmise that it could be analogous to the ...