“It seemed as if the gates of hell had opened up.  Brilliant stiletto flames shot out from the side of the rocket near the engine. The vehicle...
Sputnik 2 was the second spacecraft launched into Earth orbit and was the first to launch a living creature. The satellite was a 4 meter high cone-shaped...
On October 4th 1957, the Soviet Union demonstrated that it had to be taken seriously. Only a few years prior they had lagged the US badly in both bombers...
“We had absolute confidence in Comrade Korolev. Â We believed him when he told us that his rocket would not only fly, but that is would travel 7000...
By the late 1940′s, it became obvious that Army ballistic missile research activities required more room than what was available at Fort Bliss, Texas....