Kosmos-482, a spacecraft bound for Venus in 1972, was a time capsule from the Cold War when superpowers had broad ambitions for exploring the solar system.

Over three decades later, they’ve become one of only three nations to put humans into space. The Cold War's space drama didn’t end - it simply moved east. For American professionals ...

In this time line, explore the Cold War's secret space race.—Rima Chaddha Following World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union entered into the Cold War game of spy-versus-spy that ...

The launch alarmed many Americans and led to a renewed commitment to space research and science ... and ultimately hastened the end of the Cold War. The post-Sputnik surge in science and ...

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 ...

This was a race for the stratosphere actually launched ... This was nothing less than humanity’s ascent into the “void of space,” into the “cold kingdom of mystery,” from which we ...

A discussion on the space race 75 years ago would highlight a series of achievements and competitions ping ponging between the United States (U.S.) and the Soviet Union. In a 2025 post-cold war ...

is taking me through "Space Race," which starts with the German V-2 rockets, the kind used against London in World War II. The Cold War was just starting when, fearing capture by vengeful Russians ...

The playing field for space exploration is changing. The old Cold War divide between the USA and ... is it out of the race? Or has President George W Bush’s call to send humans to Mars put ...