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 ...

Tesla CEO and Amazon founder vie for dominance of satellite launch market and could influence Nasa plans to return to Moon ...

The US may have won the space race back in 1969 by being the first nation to put a man on the moon. But now, more than 50 years later, Britain has finally won a space race of its own. British ...

November 3: Sputnik 2 carries Laika, a female dog, into space. Although the satellite will remain in orbit for 162 days, scientists plan to put Laika to sleep after a week because there is no way ...

Nearly 70 years after the first space race began, we’re in the midst of a new, more complex one, where security concerns and goals are paramount, often trumping science and exploration.

Amazon tycoon Jeff Bezos has successfully fired a rocket into orbit as he took a giant leap in his space race with Elon Musk. The world’s two richest men are using reusable rockets to launch ...

The Space Race of the 1960s was a monumental period in history. The competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to dominate space exploration captured the world’s attention ...

White later became one of the first casualties of the space race, dying in 1967 in a launch-pad fire that consumed the Apollo 1 mission, the first crewed mission of the US programme to reach the moon.