space race

Describes the history of the "moonwatchers, " ordinary American citizens who became amateur scientists by taking an active role in the space-age of the late 1950s, watching and charting satellites using homemade telescopes and other devices.

When the United States develops a new, state-of-the-art missile defense weapon, it threatens global stability and pits the world's superpowers in a contest for dominance in the space around Earth's orbit.

Learn about the challenges and benefits of space exploration. Includes the development of rocket science, the space race and history of manned space travel. Experience real space adventures, NASA footage and hands-on investigations.

Photographs and text chronicle the competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to be the first to reach the moon, looking at the lengths to which each nation went to keep an eye on what the other was doing, and discussing how the contest evolved into a partnership.

Collects fourteen documents from and about the space race, including news articles, excerpts from speeches by U.S. leaders, personal accounts by astronauts, and three essays on the race's impact on Soviet and American society and culture.

This book discusses the United States' role in the space race in the 1960s, including the beginning of NASA, early space exploration, and the first moon landing by American astronauts.

Discusses the race between the United States and the Soviet Union to be the first nation to send a man into space and to land on the moon, including a glimpse of historical, technological, and human factors involved.

Illustrations and text highlight historical events from the Apollo 13 spacecraft accident and the movie.

Draws on previously unreleased documents, rare photographs, and other resources from both the American and Soviet archives to offer a detailed look at the rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union and the impact that rivalry had on the desire and push to send a man into outer space.