Neatorama Posts Tagged "space race"
NASA 60th: How It All Began...

[https://youtu.be/VV6QeZFaVSQ] (YouTube link)Presi...  ...nt Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act on July 29, 1958. That act transferred the du...  ...vilian agency called the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). NASA came about as a respo...

https://www.neatorama.com/2018/07/29/NASA-60th-How-It-All-Began/
The Secret History of the First Cat in Space

The Soviets sent the dog Laika and other animals i...  ...Soviets sent the dog Laika and other animals into space before humans. NASA sent chimpanzees into space to pave the way for astronauts. The French, a lit...  ...a little behind the superpowers, sent a cat into space .On...

https://www.neatorama.com/2017/01/27/The-Secret-History-of-the-First-Cat-in-Space/
Hidden Figures...

It’s only been in the last couple of decades...  ...the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race goes on sale next month and is already a movie. S...  ...ir Employment Practices Committee, and prohibited race -based discrimination in the country’s defen...  ...nd America's victory ove...

https://www.neatorama.com/2016/08/15/Hidden-Figures/
Bananas for Miss Baker...

If you’ve ever been to the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, you mig...  ...Miss Baker. She was one of many animals sent to space , but the first ever recovered alive by NASA. In 1...  ...iss Able, a rhesus monkey, were outfitted in tiny space suits and...

https://www.neatorama.com/2016/08/14/Bananas-for-Miss-Baker/
6 Insane Space Stories You Didn't Learn In History Class

Frankly, American history classes in public school...  ...t be more than a day or two devoted to the entire space race . The story of space exploration is a long and rich one, with occasion...  ...ause of the difference in the American and Soviet space programs. Cosmonauts car...

https://www.neatorama.com/2015/06/27/6-Insane-Space-Stories-You-Didnt-Learn-In-History-Class/
The First Woman in Space

Apparently there is a generation of Americans who...  ...who think that Sally Ride was the first woman in space . Those of us who came of age before Ride's histor...  ...e of age before Ride's historic first trip on the space shuttle are well aware that cosmonaut Valentina T...  ...cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova...

https://www.neatorama.com/2015/02/22/The-First-Woman-in-Space/
The Space Art of Tekhnika Molodezhi

Tekhnika Molodezhi was a Soviet magazine that tran...  .... During the Cold War, and especially the US-USSR space race , its futuristic art melded science fiction and te...

https://www.neatorama.com/2013/07/11/The-Space-Art-of-Tekhnika-Molodezhi/
The Secret Race to the Moon

The following is reprinted from the book Uncle Joh...  ...y realized that one of the voices was coming from space -low-Earth orbit to be exact- and the other voice...  ...in Soviet Kazakhstan, headquarters of the USSR's space program. As the entire world would learn in a few...  ...n had just become the first hu...

https://www.neatorama.com/2011/07/18/the-secret-race-to-the-moon/
5 Soviet Space Programs that Prove the USSR Was Insane

The Soviet Union used their space program as one of the front line battles of the C...  ...re was Voskhod 2, the mission featuring the first space walk. The launch went up safely, got into an orb...  ...lexei Leonov, became the first human to perform a spacewalk . Super. But th...

https://www.neatorama.com/2011/04/07/5-soviet-space-programs-that-prove-the-ussr-was-insane/
The Wonderful World of Big Science...

For most of its history, science has always been d...  ...ject over at Argonne National Laboratory: Link)2. Space RaceAlthough it's debatable whether "science" was mu...  ...her "science" was much of a part of the Space Race , there's no doubt that it definitely filled the &...  ...y $100 bil...

https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/15/the-wonderful-world-of-big-science/
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