During the Cold War, both the Soviet Union and the United States quietly explored plans for permanent moon bases, military outposts, and even detonating a nuclear device on the lunar surface.
I sometimes wonder where we would be now, as a species, had the Soviet Union not collapsed and continued its space race with the United States. Would we have already colonized other planets by now, or ...
As the Space Race intensified, Alan Shepard and Alexei Leonov pushed human spaceflight into the unknown, testing the limits of technology, physiology, and nerve. Their missions reveal how close early ...