Headlines of the 1950s and '60s seemed to indicate that the Soviet Union was light-years ahead of the U.S. throughout much of the space race. But behind the scenes, a very different story was ...

In the 1950s, images of the future were tightly interwoven with the social, political, and economic phenomena that defined the decade. From the space race that would grow out of the increasingly ...

Soviets beat U.S. - first into space MOSCOW, Oct. 4 ... of the sphere in its race around the earth. Ohio man the first to spot Sputnik By LARRY OCHS, as told to the United Press COLUMBUS, Ohio ...

The 1950s and 1960s were the golden age of space exploration. The U.S. and the Soviet Union were locked in a race to the ...

USSR: Fierce rivals in the Space Race The USA and the USSR believed that ... as used on Soviet rocket flights during the 1950s The American response to Sputnik was called Project Vanguard which ...