As rocket technology improved and spaceflight ... In this time line, explore the Cold War's secret space race.—Rima Chaddha Following World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union entered ...

Decades after the end of the space race ... After the end of the Cold War, American engineers started hearing about secret rocket technology developed in the 1960s by the Russians.

which was a major source of Cold War tension in Europe. America and the Soviet Union were competing in the Space Race, trying to be the first country in the world to send a man to the moon and ...

Unlike the Second World War, this new conflict would ... tech helped it get ahead in the Space Race. A poster shows a Soviet worker pointing to a rocket labeled ‘Vostok’ (“East”), which ...

One of the four, Tomorrowland, featured rocket rides "to the moon"; the ... usually afforded only to the upper class. The Space Race As the Cold War took hold, the United States and the Soviet ...