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The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the United States and the Soviet Union, to achieve superior spaceflight capability. It had its origins in the ballistic missile-based nuclear arms race between the two nations following World War II and had its peak with the more particular Moon Race to land on the Moon between the US moonshot and Soviet moonshot programs.
Timeline of the Space Race. This is a timeline of achievements in Soviet and United States spaceflight, spanning the Cold War era of nationalistic competition known as the Space Race. This list is limited to first achievements by the USSR and USA which were important during the Space Race in terms of public perception and/or technical innovation.
This is a list of all spacecraft landings on other planets and bodies in the Solar System, including soft landings and both intended and unintended hard impacts.The list includes orbiters that were intentionally crashed, but not orbiters which later crashed in an unplanned manner due to orbital decay.
The EU is ramping up launches in an effort to catch up with U.S. upstarts such as SpaceX and Project Kuiper on one hand, and China on the other.
Splashdown is the method of landing a spacecraft by parachute in a body of water. The method has been used primarily by American crewed capsules including NASA’s Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and Orion along with the private SpaceX Dragon. It is also possible for the Russian Soyuz and the Chinese Shenzhou crewed capsules to land in water, though ...
The Cold War-inspired "space race" and "Moon race" between the Soviet Union and the United States of America accelerated with a focus on the Moon. This included many scientifically important firsts, such as the first photographs of the then-unseen far side of the Moon in 1959 by the Soviet Union, and culminated with the landing of the first humans on the Moon in 1969, widely seen around the ...
List of human spaceflights, 2021–present. This is a detailed list of human spaceflights from 2021 to present . Green indicates a suborbital flight (including flights that failed to attain intended orbit). ISS crew rotation. ISS crew rotation. First human spaceflight from the State of New Mexico.
Polaris. The Polaris Program is a planned human spaceflight program organized by businessman and commercial astronaut Jared Isaacman. [1] Isaacman, who commanded the first all-civilian spaceflight— Inspiration4 —in September 2021, purchased flights from SpaceX in order to create the Polaris Program. The first two flights will use the SpaceX ...