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... paper compares and contrasts the characteristics of the first space race, which ran from the late 1950s to the late 1990s, and the second space race that began with the successful space flight of SpaceShipOne in 2004. The first space race was between superpowers seeking to establish geo-political dominance in the Cold War. The second space race will ...

... the Governments of Canada and the United Kingdom. The possibility of a third contestant in the Space Race, in the form of a Commonwealth space program hinged on the sharing of technology and financing amongst the ... In the late 1940s and early 1950s, in the wake of the Second World War, much of Britain’s industrial energies were tied up rebuilding the country’s infrastructure. The birth of the long- ...

Media:Letttothevicepresident_by_Von_Braun_42961.pdf Letter to Vice President Johnson from Wernher von Braun about the space race Category:Publications

Media:Memoforthevicepres_From_JFK_42061.pdf Memo from President Kennedy to VP Johnson about US chances in the space race Category:Publications

... .59.204 '''Number of Pages''' - 20 Abstract In the 1960s and early 1970s the United States and the Soviet Union were racing each other in the "space race" whose main arena were piloted spaceflight, and in particular Moon missions, and, to a lesser extent, planetary exploration. During the same ...

... , the Black Arrow only had about a third of the lifting power of Blue Streak . ref 9 Britain Leaves the Race By 1968 the government in England declined to contribute more funds to the European space launch ... Defence & The Commonwealth Space Program by Robert Godwin 1 - The Empire Strikes Out - Canada's Defence & The Commonwealth Space Program - Part 2 by Robert Godwin 2 - The Empire Strikes Out - Canada's Defence & The Commonwealth Space Program - Part ...

... GERMAN SECRET WEAPONS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR''' by Lusar, R. ''New York, 1959: Philosophical Library, 264 pages, $10.00'' A ... . The book, translated from the German, offers descriptive paragraphs on the Vl and V2, A9/A10, X7 SD1400X, Hs293, Bu246, Rheinbote, R4M, rocket airplanes, etc. Extracted from the 1962 Publication ''Annotated Bibliography of Space Science ...

... , space policy, robotics. '''JBIS Reference Code ''' - 2000.53.319 '''Number of Pages''' - 38 Abstract Between January 1963 and April 1968 the Soviet Union launched 20 robotic probes as part of its "second generation" lunar exploration programme. The main purpose of this programme was to perform the first ever soft landing on the lunar surface and to place the first probes into lunar ...

... The first firing of the new Canadian propellant took place on February 24th 1959 at the CARDE facility in Valcartier Quebec. The burn would output 20,000 pounds of thrust for 20 seconds ...

... the second day De Havilland's Geoffrey Pardoe delivered a detailed explanation of the capabilities of Blue Streak leading many delegates to believe that a Commonwealth program was inevitable since the ...

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