Kaputnik: America’s Hilariously Bad Rocket Failure
Picture America’s most embarrassing space race moment as the Vanguard rocket barely left the ground before erupting into a spectacular fireball.
Picture America’s most embarrassing space race moment as the Vanguard rocket barely left the ground before erupting into a spectacular fireball.
Joining the space race with a $7B defense plan, Canada silently transforms from a gun-focused military into an unexpected cosmic superpower.
Behind America’s space race with the Soviets lies an explosive failure that changed the nation’s entire approach to reaching the stars.
America’s first satellite launch turned into an explosive disaster in 1957, but this spectacular failure changed the Space Race forever.