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The Apollo 1 Fire: A Tragedy That Almost Ended the Program

At 6:30 PM on January 27, 1967, the crew of Apollo 1 — Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee — was sealed inside their command module at Launch Complex 34…

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The Space Race 1957–1969: Sputnik to the Moon as Cold War Proxy

On October 4, 1957, a metal sphere roughly the size of a beach ball was launched into orbit from a Kazakh steppe. It weighed 184 pounds, circled the Earth ever…

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The Space Race as Cold War Weapon — How Sputnik and Apollo Were More Political Than Scientific

On the night of October 4, 1957, radio operators around the world detected a faint, repetitive beeping transmitted from orbit. Sputnik 1, a 184-pound aluminum…

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