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Space Race, the Cold War geopolitical rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union in space primacy Moon Race, the race to have the first human landing on the Moon; Mars race, the rivalry between teams to put the first humans on or about the planet Mars; Billionaire space race, the entrepreneurial rivalry for private spaceflight ...
This is a timeline of achievements in Soviet and United States spaceflight, spanning the Cold War era of nationalistic competition known as the Space Race.. This list is limited to first achievements by the USSR and USA which were important during the Space Race in terms of public perception and/or technical innovation.
Wernher von Braun's space station concept (1952) Although Germans, Americans and Soviets experimented with small liquid-fuel rockets before World War II, launching satellites and humans into space required the development of larger ballistic missiles such as Wernher von Braun's Aggregat-4 (A-4), which became known as the Vergeltungswaffe 2 (V-2) developed by Nazi Germany to bomb the Allies in ...
Nuclear arms race – competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States, the Soviet Union, and their respective allies during the Cold War. Space Race – 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), for supremacy in spaceflight capability. It had its origins in ...
US signals intelligence in the Cold War; Slavic-Eurasian Research Center; The Soviet Basic Thesis on the Middle East Conflict; Soviet empire; Soviet Middle Eastern foreign policy during the Cold War; Soviet Nuclear Threat Reduction Act of 1991; Space Race; Spies for Peace; Sputnik crisis; State continuity of the Baltic states; List of states ...
As Time Magazine states, “Space exploration is a powerful rallying point for national pride… The contest may not be accompanied by the blaring cold-war overtones of the last great space race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. China's space program is conducted largely in secret, and Japan's modest achievements don't make headlines.
Roblox occasionally hosts real-life and virtual events. They have in the past hosted events such as BloxCon, which was a convention for ordinary players on the platform. [98] Roblox operates annual Easter egg hunts [99] and also hosts an annual event called the "Bloxy Awards", an awards ceremony that also functions as a fundraiser. The 2020 ...
This category deals with technological races or comparative competitions between a number of parties commonly coined in modern lexicon as "races", such as arms races, the space race, and so forth. Pages in category "Technological races"