ASIN: B08XWJ4FW6
Publisher: Charles River Editors
Pages: 62
*Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents“We're not up there in space just to joyride around. We're up there to do things that are of value to everybody right here on Earth.” – John GlennToday the Space Race is widely viewed poignantly and fondly as a race to the Moon that culminated with Apollo 11 “winning” the Race for the United States. In fact, it encompassed a much broader range of competition between the Soviet Union and the United States that affected everything from military technology to successfully launching satellites that could land on Mars or orbit other planets in the Solar System. Moreover, the notion that America “won” the Space Race at the end of the 1960s overlooks just how competitive the Space Race actually was in launching people into orbit, as well as the major contributions the Space Race influenced in leading to ...
