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NASA Honours Alan Shepard as It Celebrates 60th Anniversary of First American in Space

Edited by Gadgets 360 Newsdesk | Thursday May 6, 2021

NASA astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American to travel to space 60 years ago on May 5. The space research organisation honoured Shepard and his mission with a special page on its website. The year 1961 was extremely crucial as the United States and the Soviet Union — the two dominant superpowers at the time — were locked in a race to s...

Soviet Documents Reveal Cover-Ups At Chernobyl Nuclear Plant Before 1986 Disaster

World News | Reuters | Tuesday April 27, 2021

The Soviet Union knew the Chernobyl nuclear plant was dangerous and covered up emergencies there before the 1986 disaster, the Ukrainian authorities said as they released documents to mark the 35th anniversary of the accident on Monday.

George Blake, Last In Line Of Cold War Spies Who Betrayed Britain, Dies

World News | Reuters | Saturday December 26, 2020

George Blake, who died in Russia on Saturday at the age of 98, was the last in a line of British spies whose secret work for the Soviet Union humiliated the intelligence establishment when it was discovered at the height of the Cold War.

Telegram to Launch Paid Features for Business and Power Users in 2021

Agence France-Presse | Wednesday December 23, 2020

Telegram founder Pavel Durov said that the messaging app will launch paid features in 2021 for business and power users to generate revenue as it nears 500 million users.

Unmanned Chinese Spacecraft Lands On Moon: Report

World News | Reuters | Tuesday December 1, 2020

China successfully landed a spacecraft on the moon's surface on Tuesday in a historic mission to retrieve lunar surface samples, Chinese state media reported.

Coronavirus: Russia's 2020 Car Sales May See A Slump As Bad As It Was Around The Fall Of The USSR

Reuters | Tuesday April 21, 2020

Tough coronavirus-related measures coupled with the devaluation of the rouble and a big drop in personal incomes could see Russian car sales slump to levels seen around the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, market participants and experts said.

Russia Honours Two Members Of UK's "Cambridge Five" Spies

World News | Reuters | Friday December 20, 2019

Russia on Friday honoured two members of the British "Cambridge Five" spy ring who passed information to the Soviet Union with a memorial plaque and a tribute from the head of Russia's foreign intelligence service.

Can a New Space Race Connect the World to the Internet?

Associated Press | Tuesday September 24, 2019

Like the last century's battle for space supremacy that was triggered by the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik 1, this one involves satellites.

At 82, NASA Pioneer Sue Finley Still Reaching For The Stars

World News | Agence France-Presse | Wednesday July 17, 2019

Sue Finley began work at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as the US prepared to launch its first satellite into orbit in 1958, racing to match the Soviet Union, which had accomplished the feat months earlier.

Russians Turn To Sex Coaches To Overcome Soviet-Era Taboos

World News | Agence France-Presse | Saturday May 11, 2019

Surrounded by erotic toys, half a dozen women of all ages sit in a central Moscow basement facing a whiteboard as a sex coach trains them in speaking openly about their sexual desires.

India Fourth To Test ASAT, Pioneered By US, Soviet Union 60 Years Ago

India News | Press Trust of India | Thursday March 28, 2019

In the backdrop of the Cold War and perceived threat of strikes from space, both United States and the erstwhile USSR worked on the Anti-Satellite Weapons (ASAT) programme, but it was the former who tested it first in 1959.

NASA Wants To Get To The Moon. But China And India Are Racing There, Too

Science | Christian Davenport, The Washington Post | Monday February 18, 2019

During the height of the Space Age, the United States and the Soviet Union bushwhacked a frantic path to the lunar surface, landing nearly 20 spacecraft softly on the moon between 1966 and 1976, including the six carrying NASA's Apollo astronauts.

Ex-US Defence Chief Who Strove To Contain Nuclear Weapons Dies At 91

World News | Reuters | Sunday January 6, 2019

Harold Brown, an advocate of nuclear arms control who as President Jimmy Carter's defense secretary tried but failed to win US Senate approval of a key treaty with the Soviet Union, has died at age 91, the think tank where he worked said.

Moscow Looks Back, George HW Bush A Steady Hand While Soviet Union Fell

World News | Anton Troianovski, The Washington Post | Sunday December 2, 2018

George H.W. Bush's presidency will be forever linked with the Soviet Union's collapse. But in Moscow, his death provoked an outpouring of nostalgia Saturday for an American leader who chose careful diplomacy over brinkmanship as the postwar order was thrown into disarray.

Ex-US President HW Bush, Who Steered America Through Cold War, Dies At 94

World News | Agence France-Presse | Saturday December 1, 2018

George H.W. Bush -- the upper-crust war hero-turned-oilman and diplomat who steered America through the end of the Cold War as president and led a political dynasty that saw his son win the White House -- died Friday. He was 94.