Cold War Space News Today

When it comes to a Cold War Space Race, China seems ready to compete with the US and Russia, but the systemic problems of its own society will probably leave them choking on the West's Moon dust, so to speak.

When Americans realized the atom bomb their country created could be turned on them, arts and society alike bunkered down into nightmares of nuclear destruction. 

Sixty years ago, on May 5, 1961, a Redstone rocket hurled Alan Shepard’s Mercury capsule, Freedom 7, 116 miles (187 km) high and 302 miles (486 km) downrange from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Freedom 7 parachuted into the Atlantic just 15 minutes and 22 seconds later, after attaining a maximum velocity of 5,180 mph (8,336 km/h). Shepard, a Navy test pilot and NASA astronaut, became the first American to fly in space. Shepard’s flight was a triumph, not least because it had been conducted live...

Bonnie Dunbar: Five-time space hero was inspired by Dundonian grandfather © Supplied Dr Bonnie Dunbar successfully completed five Space Shuttle missions during her time with NASA. Bonnie Dunbar was inspired to reach for the stars by her Dundonian grandfather and went on to become a five-time space hero. Only a handful of other American astronauts have heard the countdown to lift-off from the inside of a spacecraft more often than she has. Dr Dunbar, 72, worked for 27 years at NASA, successfull...

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