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24 de ene. de 2021 · Since the space age began with Sputnik in 1957, the number of active satellites has grown to well over 3,000. Of these, the commercial number has surged, nearly doubling over the past year. The ...
JFK and the Space Race: Transcript. JOHN F. KENNEDY: We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard. MATT PORTER: In 1962, President John F. Kennedy told a cheering crowd of more than 40,000 people at Rice University that American astronauts would land on the moon by the ...
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 American astronauts. Though it was ...
23 de oct. de 2019 · The “Moonrise” podcast chronicled the race to the moon, weaving together stories of science fiction’s influence, Cold War nuclear brinkmanship between the United States and the Soviet Union ...
11 de abr. de 2011 · Summer of '69. In the summer of 1969, when the Apollo 11 crew were on their way to the Moon, US vice-president, Spiro Agnew declared that America would be on Mars by 1980. At the time, this was ...
18 de sept. de 2018 · Two tortoises beat NASA to the moon by a matter of months. Fifty years ago today, on September 18, 1968, the Soviet Union’s Zond 5 spacecraft circled the moon, ferrying the first living creatures known to have orbited another world. On board were two Russian steppe tortoises along with some worms, flies and seeds.
The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the United States and the Soviet Union, to achieve superior spaceflight capability. It had its origins in the ballistic missile-based nuclear arms race between the two nations following World War II and had its peak with the more particular Moon Race to land on the Moon between the US moonshot and Soviet moonshot programs.
