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Space Race is a BBC docudrama series first shown in Britain on BBC2 between 14 September and 5 October 2005, chronicling the major events and characters in the American/Soviet space race up to the first landing of a man on the Moon. It focuses on Sergei Korolev, the Soviet chief rocket designer, and Wernher von Braun, his American counterpart ...
The Space Racers watch archival TV footage about the legendary Swift Starlight's last race, just before he inexplicably vanished and was never heard from again. Intrigued, Robyn decides to pursue the cold trail of his mysterious disappearance by interviewing several teachers and writing a story for the school blog.
The book was released in 2013 titled Rocket Girl, and subtitled, “The Story of Mary Sherman Morgan, America’s First Female Rocket Scientist”. It was particularly hard to source information due to the secrecy of the Space Race and Cold War relations. [11]
Taking on an expansive topic, the contribution of Black astronauts to the American space program, Lisa Cortés and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza’s “The Space Race” derives its strength from the ...
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"
During the 1960s, the United States and the Soviet Union were engaged in a feverish technological competition, popularly known as the space race, to be the first to land a human on the Moon. The United States won the race, but less is known about a "secret chapter" from the Cold War era.
The hidden figures of the space race were recognized with Congress’ highest honor at a medal ceremony on Wednesday.. The Congressional Gold Medal was presented to the families of Katherine ...
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 ...