Russian cosmonauts became the only people to die in space after spending 23 days orbiting Earth
Soviet Russia's Soyuz 11 cosmonauts Georgi Dobrovolski, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsayev died on their return to Earth ...
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The Next Space Race Is Here - And Rocket Lab Is Winning
To make matters worse, when the United States was working on plans to make it to the moon, it was in competition with the Soviet Union ... to lead the modern space race. Rocket Lab faces risks ...
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11 Chilling Facts About the Cold War
The USSR’s less-sophisticated tech helped it get ahead in the Space Race. A poster shows a Soviet worker pointing to a rocket labeled ‘Vostok’ (“East”), which launched Sputnik in 1957 ...