2014-09-24 India Wins the Asian Space Race to Mars
India has won the Asian race to Mars. India successfully placed a spacecraft into orbit of the “Red Planet” early Wednesday. The spaceship traveled hundreds of millions of kilometers from…
2014-07-19 Space Race is No More, 45 Years after Moon Landing
Forty-five years ago, humans visited another world for the first time. Two American astronauts stepped out of their spacecraft and onto the moon. This happened during a fierce competition in…
American History – 207. The Space Race Heightens Cold War Tensions With the Soviet Union
VOICE ONE: This is Phil Murray. VOICE TWO: And this is Rich Kleinfeldt with THE MAKING OF A NATION — a VOA Special English program about the history of the…