NOVA Sputnik Declassified
Top-secret documents rewrite the history of the famous satellite and the space race. Details
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Space Race Time Line
Examine turning points in the Cold War competition to dominate space.
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A Tainted Legacy
How should Wernher von Braun be remembered—as a Nazi engineer or a space visionary?
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Build a Rocket
Learn more about how the innovative German V-2 rocket worked by assembling it yourself.
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What Satellites See
Images from near-Earth orbit can tell us a lot about our world.
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