Attainment Quote by James E. Webb

The Soviet Union has become the seacoast of the universe.

— Sergei Korolev

This was the first time we had two ex-Soviet Cosmonauts in Houston. A lot of us, including me, viewed it with some skepticism, because…

— Leroy Chiao

The Russians are fighting for us, for the world, and for their self.

— Bashar al-Assad

“The American and Russian capabilities in space science and technology mesh; they interdigitate. Each is strong where the other is weak. This is a…

— Carl Sagan

Although the U.S.-Soviet rivalry was global in scope, its center of gravity was the Iron Curtain in Europe, where both sides had massive armies…

— John Mearsheimer

Soviet rocket troops possess enough equipment to be able, if need be, to sweep any aggressor from the face of the earth at whatever…

— Sergey Biryuzov

The U.S. space program has mythologies attached to pioneering and conquering, but the Russian tradition is very different. In the Russian tradition, the ultimate…

— Trevor Paglen

“But by leapfrogging the United States into space, the Russians turned even local racial policy into fodder for the international conflict. In forcing the…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

The Russians have been flying long duration crews since the early '70's. And in the early days, they've ended at least two missions early…

— Leroy Chiao

If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.

— James Lovelock

It is clear that while our Army was engaged in Afghanistan and Iraq, Russia studied U.S. capabilities and vulnerabilities and embarked on an ambitious…

— H. R. McMaster

Now that the Cold War is over with, it's kind of hard to take the Soviet Union seriously. We won, period. We ran them…

— John Mearsheimer